CVE-2021-1085

HIGH

7.3

CVSS Score

Published: April 29, 2021 at 06:50 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:30 AM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorVirtual GPU ManagerVirtual GPU· also runs on 4 platforms

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Severity

HIGH7.3

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.2%

Description

NVIDIA vGPU driver contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin), where there is the potential to write to a shared memory location and manipulate the data after the data has been validated, which may lead to denial of service and escalation of privileges and information disclosure but attacker doesn't have control over what information is obtained. This affects vGPU version 12.x (prior to 12.2), version 11.x (prior to 11.4) and version 8.x (prior to 8.7).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Virtual GPU Manager · NVIDIA

95%

11.0 ≤ v < 11.412.0 ≤ v < 12.28.0 ≤ v < 8.7

Affected range stops below 11.4, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 12.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Affected range stops below 8.7, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

citrix-hypervisor (environment) · nutanix-ahv (environment) · redhat-enterprise-linux-kernel-based-virtual-machine (environment) · vmware-vsphere (environment)

Virtual GPU · NVIDIA

60%

v < 12.2

Affected range stops below 12.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement