CVE-2021-1085

Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-04-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

NVIDIA vGPU driver contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where there is the potential to write to a shared memory location and manipulate the data after the data has been validated, which may lead to denial of service and escalation of privileges and information disclosure but attacker doesn't have control over what information is obtained. This affects vGPU version 12.x (prior to 12.2), version 11.x (prior to 11.4) and version 8.x (prior to 8.7).

Affected products

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager: from 8.0 before 8.7; from 11.0 before 11.4; from 12.0 before 12.2 — fixed in 8.7, 11.4, 12.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager 8.7, 11.4, 12.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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