VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion

CVE-2020-3981
MEDIUM 5.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.80 % · percentile 57 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
vmware
NVD status
Modified

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0LOW 3.5AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusionaffected VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6)

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD