CVE-2020-5962 is a high-severity vulnerability in the NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, affecting all versions of NVIDIA GeForce, NVS, Quadro, and Tesla products. An attacker with local system access can exploit a flaw in the NVIDIA Control Panel to corrupt a system file, potentially leading to denial of service or escalation of privileges. The CVSS score is 7.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 390, < 392.61CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:quadro_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 418, < 426.78CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:quadro_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 440, < 443.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:quadro_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 450, < 451.48CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:quadro_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 450, < 451.48CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:nvidia:geforce_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.