CVE-2020-5987: NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager

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

NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager contains a vulnerability in the vGPU plugin in which guest-supplied parameters remain writable by the guest after the plugin has validated them, which may lead to the guest being able to pass invalid parameters to plugin handlers, which may lead to denial of service or escalation of privileges. This affects vGPU version 8.x (prior to 8.5), version 10.x (prior to 10.4) and version 11.0.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager: from 8.0, before 8.5 (fixed in 8.5); from 10.0, before 10.4 (fixed in 10.4); version 11.0 only

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