CVE-2020-3981

MediumCVSS 5.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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 read 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 issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125 CWE-367

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Oct 20, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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