Vulnerability · Published Jul 21, 2021 · Assigned by nvidia

CVE-2021-1098

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software from NVIDIA. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 17% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 83.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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 (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
NVIDIA	NVIDIA Virtual GPU Software	vGPU version 12.x (prior to 12.3), version 11.x (prior to 11.5) and version 8.x (prior 8.8).

References

https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5211 x_refsource_CONFIRM