CVE-2020-3982

Published Oct 20, 2020

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

Description
VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to crash the virtual machine's vmx process or corrupt hypervisor's memory heap.
Source
security@vmware.com
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
7.7
Impact score
5.8
Exploitability score
1.3
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.9
Impact score
4.9
Exploitability score
6.8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-367

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations