CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-3971
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0015.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0015.html Vendor Advisory