Description
VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202006401-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in NVMe functionality. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to a virtual machine with a virtual NVMe controller present may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0012.html
Scores
CVSS v3
8.4
EPSS
0.0005
EPSS Percentile
17.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-125
Status
published
Products (4)
vmware/fusion
11.0.0 - 11.5.5
vmware/vsphere_esxi
6.5 (18 CPE variants)
vmware/vsphere_esxi
6.7 (3 CPE variants)
vmware/workstation
15.0.0 - 15.5.5
Published
Sep 15, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026