CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-3971

5.5 MEDIUM 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])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201904101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-201907101-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.0.2), and Fusion (11.x before 11.0.2) contain a heap overflow vulnerability in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter. A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine with a vmxnet3 network adapter present may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.7.2) • vmware fusion (>= 11.0.0 < 11.0.2) • vmware workstation (>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.2) • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References