What is CVE-2020-5961?

CVE-2020-5961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, classified under Incomplete Cleanup. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-03-12.

How severe is CVE-2020-5961?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVE-2020-5961

NVIDIA vGPU graphics driver for guest OS contains a vulnerability in which an incorrect resource clean up on a failure path can impact the guest VM, leading to denial of service.

Published 2020-03-12 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (17.9th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 18th percentile — 17.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver — versions ALL
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Graphics Driver

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-459 — Incomplete Cleanup

References

nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4996 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5961?: CVE-2020-5961 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, classified under Incomplete Cleanup. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2020-03-12.
How severe is CVE-2020-5961?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.