CVE-2021-1057 Privilege escalation in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager
Guests can allocate unauthorized resources in NVIDIA vGPU Manager, leading to privilege escalation, data exposure, or denial of service.
- 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-2021-1057?
CVE-2021-1057 is a high-severity vulnerability in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager, published on 8 Jan 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager NVIDIA vGPU manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin in which it allows guests to allocate some resources for which the guest is not authorized, which may lead to integrity and confidentiality loss, denial of service, or information disclosure. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.6) and version 11.0 (prior to 11.3).
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-1057?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu Manager.
How do I fix CVE-2021-1057?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-1057 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-1057 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-1057 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mr62-x8vh-x4g5.