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.

EPSS: 0.003 (20.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

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

psirt@nvidia.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.