CVE-2020-3981

medium

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 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.

References

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-10-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium