CVE-2020-3982 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0023.html

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.7