CVE-2020-3960

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read4 documents4 sources
Severity
8.4HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 82.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Vmware FusionVmware WorkstationVmware Vsphere Esxi
Timeline
PublishedSep 15
Latest updateMay 24

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.0 | Impact: 5.8

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDvmware/fusion11.0.0 — 11.5.5
▶NVDvmware/workstation15.0.0 — 15.5.5
▶NVDvmware/vsphere_esxi6.5, 6.7+1

Patches

Patch: www.vmware.com ↗Patch: www.vmware.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-74wg-mhc3-jxp5: VMware ESXi (6↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-3960: VMware ESXi (6↗2021-09-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
VMware
VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CVE-2020-3960)↗2020-06-09
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CVE-2020-3960 (HIGH CVSS 8.4) | VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202 | cvebase.io