fkie_cve-2020-3999
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2020-12-21 16:15
Modified
2025-08-08 10:32
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551), VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7), VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x prior to 11.5.7) and VMware Cloud Foundation contain a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in GuestInfo. A malicious actor with normal user privilege access to a virtual machine can crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition.
References
security@vmware.comhttps://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0029.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0029.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
vmware workstation *
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware esxi 7.0
vmware fusion *
apple mac_os_x -


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