Denial of Service Vulnerability in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion
CVE-2020-3999

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Vmware
Status
Vmware Esxi, Vmware Workstation,vmware Fusion And Vmware Cloud Foundation
Vendor
CVE Published:
21 December 2020

Summary

VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation are susceptible to a denial of service vulnerability stemming from inadequate input validation in GuestInfo. This flaw enables a malicious user with standard privileges to compromise a virtual machine, resulting in the crashing of the vmx process. Consequently, this leads to a denial of service condition, impacting the availability of virtualized resources.

Affected Version(s)

VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation,VMware Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundation VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551), VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7)and VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x prior to 11.5.7)

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0029...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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