What is CVE-2020-5983?

CVE-2020-5983 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Vgpu Software, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2020-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-5983?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Nvidia Vgpu Software

CVE-2020-5983

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin and the host driver kernel module, in which the potential exists to write to a memory location that is outside the intended boundary of the frame buffer memory allocate…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.003 (23.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Nvidia Vgpu Software — versions vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.
Nvidia Virtual_gpu_manager — versions 11.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

psirt@nvidia.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5983?: CVE-2020-5983 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Vgpu Software, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2020-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-5983?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.