CVE-2021-39158

HIGH 8.8CVE-2021-39158 · Published 23/08/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-39158 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting nvcaffe (nvidia).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.50%, higher than 42.7% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.17.4 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
nvcaffe nvidia	`< 0.17.4`	`0.17.4`

Description

NVCaffe's python required dependencies list used to contain `gfortran`version prior to 0.17.4, entry which does not exist in the repository pypi.org. An attacker could potentially have posted malicious files to pypi.org causing a user to install it within NVCaffe.

References

NVIDIA/caffe security advisory · Third Party Advisory

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