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NVIDIA vGPU Manager EUVDEUVD-2026-90071

| CVE-2026-47496 HIGH
Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)
2026-09-30 nvidia GHSA-58vc-r3xj-v2r3
7.3
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: nvidia
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain unprivileged user on guest VM
  2. Delivery
    Craft malicious vGPU RPC call
  3. Exploit
    Send RPC to host vGPU Manager
  4. Execution
    Trigger out-of-bounds write in host memory
  5. Impact
    Escalate privileges / tamper data / crash host service

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, write limits
MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation

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Exploitation Conditions

Requires the host to be running the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin) with at least one guest VM assigned, and the attacker must already hold an unprivileged local user account inside such a guest VM to issue the crafted RPC to the host. This is inherently limited to vGPU/VDI/cloud-GPU deployments (not standard bare-metal GPU driver installs), requires no user interaction on the host, and is not remotely reachable over the network - the 'local' vector is exercised from within a guest across the virtualization RPC channel to the host.

Impact

This is a genuine but moderate-priority issue whose real-world risk is defined by its attack surface rather than by mass exploitability. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U) confirms local access and low privileges are required - there is no network-facing exposure - but the critical nuance in the description is that the 'local' attacker is a GUEST VM USER sending a crafted RPC to the vGPU Manager on the HOST. In a multi-tenant vGPU/VDI/cloud-GPU deployment this is effectively a guest-to-host boundary crossing, which raises the practical severity above what a bare 'local privilege escalation' label suggests. The vendor scored S:U (unchanged scope) and C:L/I:H/A:H, yielding 7.3; a case could be made for scope change given the guest→host crossing, but the vendor's I:H/A:H with only C:L (an OOB write that corrupts/crashes but leaks little) is internally consistent. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or public PoC is present in the supplied data, so there is no evidence of active or widespread exploitation - this is a vendor-discovered (NVIDIA-reported) hardening fix, not a signal of in-the-wild activity. Bottom line: not a drop-everything emergency, but it should be patched on any host that runs untrusted or multi-tenant guest VMs, where the guest→host escape potential makes it materially more important than a single-tenant driver bug.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who already controls an unprivileged user account inside a guest VM on a vGPU-enabled host sends a specially crafted RPC call to the Virtual GPU Manager plugin running on the hypervisor host. The malformed RPC triggers an out-of-bounds write in the host-side vGPU plugin, corrupting host memory to escalate privileges, tamper with data, or crash the service (DoS). No public exploit code is identified in the provided data, and the local attack vector plus required guest foothold limit this to attackers who already have tenancy on the affected host.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 30, 2026

Out-of-bounds write in the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin) lets an unprivileged user inside an assigned guest VM corrupt host-side memory by sending a specially crafted RPC call across the virtualization channel, resulting in privilege escalation, data tampering, and denial of service on the host. Rated CVSS 7.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H), the bug is only reachable in vGPU/VDI/cloud-GPU deployments where the host runs the vGPU plugin and has at least one guest assigned; it is not a network-facing flaw and does not affect standard bare-metal Linux GPU driver installs, and no public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis. Real-world risk is therefore defined by the attack surface rather than by mass exploitability, since a successful attack requires an attacker to already hold an unprivileged local account inside a hosted guest VM.

RemediationAI

Apply the fixed NVIDIA vGPU / Linux display driver build listed in NVIDIA's product security bulletin for this issue (https://github.com/NVIDIA/product-security/tree/main/2026/5861); the exact patched driver version is not reproduced in the provided data, so consult that advisory and the NVD record (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47496) to map the fix to the specific branch running on the host. If immediate upgrade is not possible, reduce exposure by tightening who can reach the guest-to-host RPC path: restrict guest VM console and login access so untrusted users cannot hold even an unprivileged account in a vGPU guest (side effect: reduces multi-tenant flexibility and is impractical where guest access is the product's purpose), and, where operationally feasible, limit the number of concurrent guest VMs assigned to a single host to shrink the pool of potential initiators. Stronger but heavier controls include isolating affected vGPU hosts from sensitive workloads or migrating them to different hardware until patched (side effect: capacity and cost impact), and adding host-side monitoring for anomalous or malformed RPC submissions from guests so attempts are detected even without a patch. These are compensating controls only - none eliminates the out-of-bounds write, so patched drivers remain the primary remediation.

Affected VersionsENISA

Virtual GPU Manager 595.71.03(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.1)
Virtual GPU Manager 580.159.01(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.5)
Virtual GPU Manager 596.38(All versions prior to and including vGPU 20.1)
Virtual GPU Manager 582.51(All versions prior to and including vGPU 19.5)

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Technical ContextAI · show details

The flaw is an out-of-bounds write (CWE-787) in the Virtual GPU Manager component of the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux - the host-side plugin that services mediated GPU requests from guest VMs. Guests communicate with this host component over a paravirtualized RPC interface, and the plugin performs insufficient bounds validation on parameters carried in an inbound RPC call. Because that RPC channel is a trust boundary between guest and host, malformed call contents are written past the end of an allocated host-side buffer, corrupting adjacent memory and giving the caller influence over host state. The CVSS vector AV:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U reflects that the primitive is triggered from a local, already-authenticated low-privileged context rather than from the network, with no user interaction and impact contained to the host system scope: low confidentiality loss but high integrity and availability impact, consistent with memory corruption that can be shaped into code execution or a host crash. The CPE data identifies nvidia:virtual_gpu_manager as the affected product line, with version ranges left wildcarded, and the CVE is tracked publicly through NVD, CVE.org, and NVIDIA's 2026 product-security bulletin (5861).

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Severity by source

Vendor (nvidia) PRIMARY 7.3 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI 7.3 HIGH

Guest-VM user (PR:L) sends a crafted RPC locally with no user interaction; OOB write yields high integrity/availability impact but limited confidentiality (C:L), scope kept unchanged per vendor.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE HIGH
Red Hat 7.3 HIGH

Primary rating from Vendor (nvidia).

CVSS VectorVendor: nvidia

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
High

DescriptionCVE.org

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Linux contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin) where a guest VM user may cause an out-of-bounds write by sending a specially crafted RPC call to the host. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to escalation of privileges, data tampering, and denial of service.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

An unpatched memory-corruption flaw in NVIDIA's Virtual GPU Manager (vGPU plugin) could allow a user inside one hosted virtual machine to reach outside their guest and corrupt memory on the physical host that other tenants share. Organizations running vGPU, VDI, or cloud-GPU environments should treat this as a multi-tenancy boundary risk, because a single tenant holding only an ordinary account could tamper with or disrupt the workloads of unrelated customers on the same hardware. Standard bare-metal GPU driver installations are not affected, and no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, so exposure is defined by architecture rather than by mass exploitation.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

No vendor patch is available; interim mitigations include restricting which users can obtain local accounts inside hosted guest VMs, limiting or pausing new guest assignments on affected hosts, isolating multi-tenant vGPU hosts from sensitive workloads and management networks, reducing tenant density, monitoring host-side vGPU plugin crashes and memory errors, and migrating the most critical workloads to bare-metal GPU systems outside vGPU scope. Apply the vendor patch immediately once NVIDIA publishes it.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 94% exploitable
Prevalence
Medium
NVIDIA vGPU Manager deployed in VDI and cloud-GPU hosts, common but not ubiquitous
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium
EUVD NVD CVE.org EPSS Vulnrichment Vendor GitHub

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision
Defer
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Small
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

36
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +36
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.

Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

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Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Important
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 Affected

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