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high8.2

CVE-2020-4004

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.7), Fusion (11.x b…

Impact

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.7), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.7) contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
VmwareFusion
from 11.0 before 11.5.7
VmwareCloud Foundation
from 3.0 before 3.10.1.2
from 4.0 before 4.1.0.1
VmwareWorkstation
from 15.0.0 before 15.5.7
VmwareEsxi
Versions 6.5, 6.7, 7.0

Weakness classification

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