CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-1118

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Published: Oct 29, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where there is the potential to execute privileged operations by the guest OS, which may lead to information disclosure, data tampering, escalation of privileges, and denial of service

Weakness

The product performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 8.0 (including) 8.9 (excluding)
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 11.0 (including) 11.6 (excluding)
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 12.0 (including) 12.4 (excluding)
Virtual_gpu Nvidia 13.0 (including) 13.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References