# CVE-2020-5959: Denial of service in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

> An attacker can cause a denial of service in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager due to improper validation of an input index value.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 12 Mar 2020
- **Updated:** 4 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3g3h-c682-r9g7

## What is CVE-2020-5959?

CVE-2020-5959 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, published on 12 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin in which an input index value is incorrectly validated which may lead to denial of service.

Weakness: CWE-129 (Improper Validation of Array Index)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5959?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Nvidia Virtual Gpu Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2020-5959?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5959 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2020-5959 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5959 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

- [CVE-2021-1080](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-1080/): Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2021-1081](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-1081/): Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2021-1082](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-1082/): Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2021-1083](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-1083/): Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2021-1084](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-1084/): Other in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software (high 7.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2020-5959 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2020-5959 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in NVIDIA GPU Display Driver, published on 12 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5959 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5959/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-5959/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-5959
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5959
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-5959

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