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    CVE-2020-5978

    NVIDIA GeForce Experience, all versions prior to 3.20.5.70, contains a vulnerability in its services in which a folder is created by nvcontainer.exe under normal user login with LOCAL_SYSTEM privileges which may lead to a denial of service or escalation of privileges.

    Published:Oct 23, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Oct 23, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00054
    CVSS Score:7.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Nvidia
    Product
    Geforce Experience

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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