CVE-2020-3966

Published Jun 25, 2020

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

Description
VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.2), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2) contain a heap-overflow due to a race condition issue in the USB 2.0 controller (EHCI). A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine. Additional conditions beyond the attacker's control must be present for exploitation to be possible.
Source
security@vmware.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
7.5
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
0.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
3.7
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
1.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-362

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations