{"id":"CVE-2020-5973","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-5973","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:26:15.746Z","title":"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.","description":"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).","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":4.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["nvidia/virtual gpu","canonical/ubuntu linux"],"epss":{"score":0.00404,"percentile":0.34448,"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":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.40%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@nvidia.com"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"psirt@nvidia.com"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-2/","tags":["Third Party 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"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-1/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4404-2/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5973","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."}