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ghsa-x697-2xrm-fh6r

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:37

Modified

2025-08-08 12:32

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

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.

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CVE-2020-3999 (GCVE-0-2020-3999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-12-21 15:14

Modified

2024-08-04 07:52

Severity ?

CWE

Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

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

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation,VMware Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundation	Version: VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551), VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7)and VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x prior to 11.5.7)

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