CVE-2020-5986 Denial of service in NVIDIA vGPU Software

Medium 5.5 Published 2 Oct 2020 Updated 4 Aug 2024

An attacker can cause tampering or denial of service in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager due to improper input validation in the vGPU plugin.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2020-5986?

CVE-2020-5986 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in NVIDIA vGPU Software, published on 2 Oct 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 contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin, in which an input data size is not validated, which may lead to tampering or denial of service. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-5986?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu Manager.

How do I fix CVE-2020-5986?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-5986 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2020-5986 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-5986 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-5hgp-p75j-4j7h.