CVE-2020-5979: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel component in which a user is presented with a dialog box for input by a high-privilege process, which may lead to escalation of privileges.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager: any version

Published 2020-10-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.