CVE-2021-1098: NVIDIA Virtual GPU

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

NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where it doesn't release some resources during driver unload requests from guests. This flaw allows a malicious guest to perform operations by reusing those resources, which may lead to information disclosure, data tampering, or denial of service. This affects vGPU version 12.x (prior to 12.3), version 11.x (prior to 11.5) and version 8.x (prior 8.8).

Affected products

• NVIDIA Virtual GPU: from 8.0, before 8.8 (fixed in 8.8); from 11.0, before 11.5 (fixed in 11.5); from 12.0, before 12.3 (fixed in 12.3)

Published 2021-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.