CVE-2021-1061 Race condition in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager
A race condition in NVIDIA vGPU Manager allows attackers to cause denial of service or information disclosure by exploiting stale resource validation.
- 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-2021-1061?
CVE-2021-1061 is a medium-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 vGPU manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin, in which a race condition may cause the vGPU plugin to continue using a previously validated resource that has since changed, which may lead to 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-362
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-1061?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Nvidia Virtual Gpu Manager.
How do I fix CVE-2021-1061?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-1061 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-1061 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-1061 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g8gv-6qwm-g2m8.