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CVE-2020-3982

Published: Oct 20, 2020Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-367
NVD MITRE
7.7CVSSHIGH
EPSS Score
0.8%
Top 47.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:HPR:HUI:NS:CC:NI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:CScope
Changed
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-367CWE-787

Affected Products

esxivmware
On-prem
Cloud & SaaS / virtualization
cloud foundationvmware
On-prem
Cloud & SaaS / virtualization
workstationvmware
On-premDesktop App
Cloud & SaaS / virtualization
workstation playervmware
On-prem
Cloud & SaaS / virtualization
fusionvmware
On-premDev Tool
Cloud & SaaS / virtualization
vmwarecommercialUSCloud & SaaSaka vmware inc
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Attack Graph

Products CVE Techniques Tactics

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Initial Access
Privilege Escalation
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References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0023.html
vmware.com

Timeline

Published
Oct 20, 2020
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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