Vulnerability CVE-2020-3970


Published: 2020-06-25

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.

Type:

CWE-125

(Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.9/10
2.9/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Vmware -> Cloud foundation 
Vmware -> Fusion 
Vmware -> Workstation 
Vmware -> ESXI 

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

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