CVE-2021-1120: NVIDIA Virtual GPU

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where a string provided by the guest OS may not be properly null terminated. The guest OS or attacker has no ability to push content to the plugin through this vulnerability, which may lead to information disclosure, data tampering, unauthorized code execution, and denial of service.

Affected products

• NVIDIA Virtual GPU: from 8.0, before 8.9 (fixed in 8.9); from 11.0, before 11.6 (fixed in 11.6); from 12.0, before 12.4 (fixed in 12.4); from 13.0, before 13.1 (fixed in 13.1)

Published 2021-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.