CVE-2020-4004 — Use After Free in Vmware Cloud Foundation

CWE-416 — Use After Free4 documents4 sources
Severity
8.2HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 47.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Vmware Cloud FoundationVmware FusionVmware Workstation+2 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 20
Latest updateMay 24

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.7), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.7) contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.5 | Impact: 6.0

Affected Packages7 packages

▶NVDvmware/fusion11.0 — 11.5.7
▶NVDvmware/workstation15.0.0 — 15.5.7
▶NVDvmware/esxi6.5, 6.7, 7.0+2
▶CVEListV5vmware/fusion11.x before 11.5.7
▶CVEListV5vmware/vmware_esxi6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206+2

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-xqvv-5qpx-cjj8: VMware ESXi (7↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-4004: VMware ESXi (7↗2020-11-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
VMware
VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion updates address use-after-free and privilege escalation vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-4004, CVE-2020-4005)↗2020-11-19
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