CVE-2020-5973 Privilege escalation in NVIDIA vGPU Software

What is CVE-2020-5973?

CVE-2020-5973 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Jun 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 and the guest drivers contain a vulnerability in vGPU plugin, in which there is the potential to execute privileged operations, which may lead to denial of service. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.4), version 9.x (prior to 9.4) and version 10.x (prior to 10.3).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5973?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Nvidia Virtual Gpu.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5973?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2020-5973 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5973 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h6g8-26w8-pwgp, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-5973.