CVE-2020-3941: The repair operation of VMware Tools for Windows 10.x.y has a race condition which may allow for privilege escalation in the Virtual Machine where Tools is…

PriorityP429high7CVSS 3.1

AVLACHPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.30%

21.4th percentile

The repair operation of VMware Tools for Windows 10.x.y has a race condition which may allow for privilege escalation in the Virtual Machine where Tools is installed. This vulnerability is not present in VMware Tools 11.x.y since the affected functionality is not present in VMware Tools 11.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	tools	>= 10.0.0 < 11.0.0	11.0.0
vmware	vmware_tools_for_windows	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.0HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.04.4MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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