A vulnerability was found in NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver (Hardware Driver Software) (unknown version). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component DLL Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-94. The software constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver, all versions, contains a vulnerability in multiple components in which a securely loaded system DLL will load its dependencies in an insecure fashion, which may lead to code execution or denial of service.

The weakness was released 10/02/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at nvidia.custhelp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-5980 since 01/07/2020. Attacking locally is a requirement. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 162250, 162252, 162253 and 162254.

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• Hardware Driver Software

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• NVIDIA

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• Windows GPU Display Driver

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• commercial

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