CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-3941

7.0 HIGH Published 2020-01-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-01-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

The repair operation of VMware Tools for Windows 10.x.y has a race condition which may allow for privilege escalation in the Virtual Machine where Tools is installed. This vulnerability is not present in VMware Tools 11.x.y since the affected functionality is not present in VMware Tools 11.

Affected configurations

• vmware tools (>= 10.0.0 < 11.0.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References