CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-3976
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-08-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
VMware ESXi and vCenter Server contain a partial denial of service vulnerability in their respective authentication services. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 5.3.
Affected configurations
• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.10)
• vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.0.1)
• vmware vcenter server 6.5
• vmware vcenter server 6.7
• vmware vcenter server 7.0
• vmware esxi 6.5
• vmware esxi 6.7
• vmware esxi 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0018.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0018.html Patch, Vendor Advisory