CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-5979

Published: Oct 02, 2020 | Modified: Oct 09, 2020

CVSS 3.x

7.8

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

4.6 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5979
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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 Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Virtual_gpu_manager	Nvidia	*	*

References

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5075

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