{"id":"CVE-2020-5978","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-5978","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:42:56.986Z","title":"NVIDIA GeForce Experience, all versions prior to 3.20.5.70, contains a vulnerability in its services in which a folder is created by nvcontainer.exe under normal user login with LOCAL_SYSTEM privileges which may lead to a denial of service or escalation…","description":"NVIDIA GeForce Experience, all versions prior to 3.20.5.70, contains a vulnerability in its services in which a folder is created by nvcontainer.exe under normal user login with LOCAL_SYSTEM privileges which may lead to a denial of service or escalation of privileges.","published":"2020-10-23T18:15:17.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:22:33.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@nvidia.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["nvidia/geforce experience"],"epss":{"score":0.00323,"percentile":0.25108,"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/5076","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@nvidia.com"},{"url":"https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5076","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5978","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."}