What is CVE-2020-5982?

CVE-2020-5982 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2020-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-5982?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

CVE-2020-5982

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) scheduler, in which the software does not properly limit the number or frequency of interactions that it has with an actor, such as the number of incoming requests, which may lead to denial of service.

Published 2020-10-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (18.7th percentile), scored 2026-10-04.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 19th percentile — 18.7% 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 Manager

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5075 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5982?: CVE-2020-5982 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.4/10. Published 2020-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-5982?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.4 out of 10.