CVE-2020-5987

published 2020-10-02

CVE-2020-5987: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin in which guest-supplied parameters remain writable by the guest after the plugin has…

Priority P3 40 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin in which guest-supplied parameters remain writable by the guest after the plugin has validated them, which may lead to the guest being able to pass invalid parameters to plugin handlers, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
nvidia	nvidia_vgpu_software	—	—
nvidia	virtual_gpu_manager	—	—
nvidia	virtual_gpu_manager	>= 10.0 < 10.4	10.4
nvidia	virtual_gpu_manager	>= 8.0 < 8.5	8.5

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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