CVE-2020-3959

LOW

Vmware Fusion < 11.1.0 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

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.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0011.html

Scores

CVSS v3 3.3

EPSS 0.0010

EPSS Percentile 26.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (50)

vmware/fusion < 11.1.0

vmware/workstation < 15.1.0

vmware/esxi

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published May 29, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026