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CVE-2020-5967: NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the UVM driver, in which a race condition may lead to a denial of

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 18/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.27% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Debian:12) 440.100-1.
  • Mentioned 2 times in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to nvidia-graphics-drivers (Debian:12) 440.100-1 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

NVIDIA Linux GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the UVM driver, in which a race condition may lead to a denial of service.

MediumCVSS 4.7 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Jun 25, 2020
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 19th percentile

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Action score

18

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
18 / 40 · 4.7 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
nvidiaquadro firmware
nvidiaquadro
nvidiatesla firmware
nvidiatesla
nvidiageforce firmware
nvidiageforce
nvidianvs firmware
nvidianvs
canonicalubuntu linux

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • canonical ubuntu linux18.04
  • canonical ubuntu linux19.10
  • canonical ubuntu linux20.04
  • nvidia geforce firmware440 and later · before 440.100
  • nvidia geforce firmware390 and later · before 390.138
  • nvidia geforce firmware450 and later · before 450.51
  • nvidia nvs firmware390 and later · before 390.138
  • nvidia nvs firmware440 and later · before 440.100
  • nvidia nvs firmware450 and later · before 450.51
  • nvidia quadro firmware450 and later · before 450.51
  • nvidia quadro firmware390 and later · before 390.138
  • nvidia quadro firmware440 and later · before 440.100
  • nvidia tesla firmware418 and later · before 418.152.00
  • nvidia tesla firmware440 and later · before 440.95.01
  • nvidia tesla firmware450 and later · before 450.51.05

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (nvidia). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • NVIDIA NVIDIA GPU Display Driver

    • Allaffected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12nvidia-graphics-driversbefore 440.100-1440.100-1

Same product

nvidia: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2020-5964NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the service host component, in which the application resources
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2020-5963NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the Inter Process Communication APIs, in which improper access
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2020-5962NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel component, in which an attacker with l
    31Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2020-5957Mar 5, 2020 · NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel component in which an attacker with lo
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2020-5958Mar 11, 2020 · NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the NVIDIA Control Panel component in which an attacker with lo
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2020-5965Jun 24, 2020 · NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the DirectX 11 user mode driver (nvwgf2um/x.dll), in which a sp
    22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
debian:nvidia-graphics-drivers440.100-1 · Debian:12Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
None
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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