CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-3972
3.3 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
VMware Tools for macOS (11.x.x and prior before 11.1.1) contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Host-Guest File System (HGFS) implementation. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with non-admin privileges on guest macOS virtual machines to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VMs.
Affected configurations
• vmware tools (>= 11.0.0 < 11.1.1)
References
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0014.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0014.html Vendor Advisory