CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-4004

8.2 HIGH Published 2020-11-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-416

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.7), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.7) contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

Affected configurations

• vmware fusion (>= 11.0 < 11.5.7) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.10.1.2) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.1.0.1) • vmware workstation (>= 15.0.0 < 15.5.7) • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References