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CVE-2020-5973

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-5973 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager and guest drivers, specifically within the vGPU plugin, potentially allowing privileged operations. This affects NVIDIA vGPU versions 8.x (prior to 8.4), 9.x (prior to 9.4), and 10.x (prior to 10.3), as well as Canonical and NVIDIA Ubuntu Linux distributions utilizing these vGPU versions. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.4 (Medium), indicating a local attack vector with low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, and resulting in high availability impact. There is no impact on confidentiality or integrity. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting low public awareness and attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.0, <= 8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:virtual_gpu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0, <= 9.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:virtual_gpu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0, <= 10.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nvidia:virtual_gpu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
19.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

nvidia.custhelp.com / app/answers/detail/a_id/5031
Vendor Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4404-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4404-2
Third Party Advisory