CVE-2020-3999 Information

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551) VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7) VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x prior to 11.5.7) and VMware Cloud Foundation contain a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in GuestInfo. A malicious actor with normal user privilege access to a virtual machine can crash the virtual machine’s vmx process leading to a denial of service condition.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0029.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

CHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5