What is CVE-2020-5987?

CVE-2020-5987 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Vgpu Software, classified under Incomplete Cleanup. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-5987?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Nvidia Vgpu Software

CVE-2020-5987

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin in which guest-supplied parameters remain writable by the guest after the plugin has validated them, which may lead to the guest being able to pass invalid parameters t…

EPSS: 0.003 (24.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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-459 — Incomplete Cleanup

References

psirt@nvidia.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-5987?: CVE-2020-5987 is a high-severity vulnerability in Nvidia Vgpu Software, classified under Incomplete Cleanup. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2020-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-5987?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.