Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-5972

Title: Nvidia Virtual Gpu Manager Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-5972.

CWE Category CWE-763

Published Date Jun 30, 2020

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.1 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.32%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-5972: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin, in which local pointer variables are not initialized and may be freed later, which may lead to tampering or 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).

Impacted Vendors

nvidia 1

Reference Links

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031 https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5031

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.1

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.6

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-5972 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

November 21, 2024 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 30, 2020 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.