CVE-2020-5973: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager and the guest drivers contain a vulnerability in vGPU plugin, in which there is the potential to execute privileged operations, which may lead to 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).

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 18.04 only; version 19.10 only; version 20.04 only
• NVIDIA Virtual GPU: from 8.0, up to and including 8.3; from 9.0, up to and including 9.3; from 10.0, up to and including 10.2

Published 2020-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.