CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-4005

7.8 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])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG) contains a privilege-escalation vulnerability that exists in the way certain system calls are being managed. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may escalate their privileges on the affected system. Successful exploitation of this issue is only possible when chained with another vulnerability (e.g. CVE-2020-4004)

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.10.1.2) • vmware cloud foundation (>= 4.0 < 4.1.0.1) • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7 • vmware esxi 7.0

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