VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-3995

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.11%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-10-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201908101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0), Fusion (11.x before 11.1.0), the VMCI host drivers used by VMware hypervisors contain a memory leak vulnerability. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine may be able to trigger a memory leak issue resulting in memory resource exhaustion on the hypervisor if the attack is sustained for extended periods of time.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-401

Primary references