CVE-2020-3960: VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202006401-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an…

PriorityP339high8.4CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSCCHINAH

EPSS

0.28%

20.2th percentile

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202006401-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in NVMe functionality. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to a virtual machine with a virtual NVMe controller present may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.

Affected

4 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	fusion	>= 11.0.0 < 11.5.5	11.5.5
vmware	vsphere_esxi	—	—
vmware	vsphere_esxi	—	—
vmware	workstation	>= 15.0.0 < 15.5.5	15.5.5

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.4HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.03.6LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

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