CVE-2020-3999: VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551), VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7), VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x…

PriorityP424medium6.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSCCNINAH

EPSS

0.35%

27.5th percentile

VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551), VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7), VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x prior to 11.5.7) and VMware Cloud Foundation contain a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in GuestInfo. A malicious actor with normal user privilege access to a virtual machine can crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	esxi	—	—
vmware	fusion	>= 11.5.0 < 11.5.7	11.5.7
vmware	workstation	>= 15.0.0 < 15.5.7	15.5.7

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.02.1LOWAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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