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medium5.8

CVE-2020-3981

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.…

Impact

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 read 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 issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
VmwareCloud Foundation
from 3.0 before 3.10.1
from 4.0 before 4.1
VmwareWorkstation
from 15.0.0 through 15.5.6
VmwareEsxi
Versions 7.0.0, 6.5, 6.7
VmwareFusion
from 11.0 before 11.5.6

Weakness classification

References