CVE-2020-5973 (GCVE-0-2020-5973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-30 22:25 – Updated: 2024-08-04 08:47
VLAI
Summary
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager and the guest drivers contain a vulnerability in vGPU plugin, in which there is the potential to execute privileged operations, which may lead to denial of service. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.4), version 9.x (prior to 9.4) and version 10.x (prior to 10.3).
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • denial of service
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NVIDIA NVIDIA vGPU Software Affected: All
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