CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-3966

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-06-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-06-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.7 LOW — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.2), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2) contain a heap-overflow due to a race condition issue in the USB 2.0 controller (EHCI). A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine. Additional conditions beyond the attacker's control must be present for exploitation to be possible.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.10) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0.0 < 4.0.1) • vmware fusion (>= 11.0.0 < 11.5.2) • vmware workstation (>= 15.0.0 < 15.5.2) • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 7.0.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References