CVSS 3.1
5.8 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2020-3981
Medium (5.8) in vmware. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 56% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-125, CWE-367
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vmware:cloud_foundation
- vmware:esxi
- vmware:fusion
- vmware:workstation