CVE-2020-3959

LowCVSS 3.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0) and VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.1.0) contain a memory leak vulnerability in the VMCI module. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a partial denial of service.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 3.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weakness enumeration

CWE-401

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
May 29, 2020
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2020-3959: Low severity, CVSS 3.3 | Vulnix