CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-1118

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Oct 29, 2021 | Modified: Sep 20, 2022
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 does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

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