CVSS 3.1
7.7 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:HCVE-2020-3982
High (7.7) 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 write 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 vulnerability to crash the virtual machine's vmx process or corrupt hypervisor's memory heap.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 57% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-367, CWE-787
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vmware:cloud_foundation
- vmware:esxi
- vmware:fusion
- vmware:workstation
- vmware:workstation_player