CVE-2020-3970 Information

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-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 the Shader functionality. A malicious actor with non-administrative local access to a virtual machine with 3D graphics enabled may be able to exploit this vulnerability to crash the virtual machine’s vmx process leading to a partial denial of service condition.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Reference

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0015.html https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-782/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

3.8