CVE-2020-5965: NVIDIA Geforce Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the DirectX 11 user mode driver (nvwgf2um/x.dll), in which a specially crafted shader can cause an out of bounds access, leading to denial of service.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Geforce Firmware: from 450, before 451.48 (fixed in 451.48)
• NVIDIA Nvs Firmware: from 390, before 392.61 (fixed in 392.61); from 418, before 426.78 (fixed in 426.78); from 440, before 443.18 (fixed in 443.18); from 450, before 451.48 (fixed in 451.48)
• NVIDIA Quadro Firmware: from 390, before 392.61 (fixed in 392.61); from 418, before 426.78 (fixed in 426.78); from 440, before 443.18 (fixed in 443.18); from 450, before 451.48 (fixed in 451.48)
• NVIDIA Tesla Firmware: from 418, before 426.78 (fixed in 426.78); from 440, before 443.18 (fixed in 443.18); from 450, before 451.48 (fixed in 451.48)

Published 2020-06-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.