CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-3980

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2020-09-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-09-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/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

Description

VMware Fusion (11.x) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it allows configuring the system wide path. An attacker with normal user privileges may exploit this issue to trick an admin user into executing malicious code on the system where Fusion is installed.

Affected configurations

• vmware fusion (>= 11.0.0 < 12.0.0)

References