{"id":"CVE-2020-5972","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-5972","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:27:48.922Z","title":"NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin, in which local pointer variables are not initialized and may be freed later, which may lead to tampering or denial of service.","description":"NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin, in which local pointer variables are not initialized and may be freed later, which may lead to tampering or 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).","published":"2020-06-30T23:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:22:33.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@nvidia.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.1,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-763"],"affected":["nvidia/virtual gpu manager"],"epss":{"score":0.00315,"percentile":0.24223,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.32%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@nvidia.com"},{"url":"https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5972","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}