CVE-2020-3982
HIGHVMware ESXi 7.0 < 7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 < 6.7-202008101, 6.5 < 6.5-202007101 - Out-of-Bounds Write via ACPI Device
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0023.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.7
EPSS
0.0020
EPSS Percentile
41.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-367
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (3)
vmware/cloud_foundation
3.0 - 3.10.1
vmware/esxi
7.0.0 (2 CPE variants)
vmware/esxi
6.7 (47 CPE variants)
Published
Oct 20, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026