VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-3982

CVSS score7.7 HIGH
EPSS probability0.83%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-10-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to crash the virtual machine's vmx process or corrupt hypervisor's memory heap.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-367

Primary references