CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-3995

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2020-10-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

In VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201908101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0), Fusion (11.x before 11.1.0), the VMCI host drivers used by VMware hypervisors contain a memory leak vulnerability. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine may be able to trigger a memory leak issue resulting in memory resource exhaustion on the hypervisor if the attack is sustained for extended periods of time.

Affected configurations

• vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.9) • vmware workstation (>= 15.0.0 < 15.1.0) • vmware fusion (>= 11.0.0 < 11.1.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References