CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-3960

8.4 HIGH Published 2021-09-15 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-09-15
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202006401-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in NVMe functionality. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to a virtual machine with a virtual NVMe controller present may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.

Affected configurations

• vmware fusion (>= 11.0.0 < 11.5.5) • vmware workstation (>= 15.0.0 < 15.5.5) • vmware vsphere esxi 6.5 • vmware vsphere esxi 6.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References