CVE-2020-3995

MEDIUM

Vmware Esxi < 3.9 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

In VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201908101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0), Fusion (11.x before 11.1.0), the VMCI host drivers used by VMware hypervisors contain a memory leak vulnerability. A malicious actor with access to a virtual machine may be able to trigger a memory leak issue resulting in memory resource exhaustion on the hypervisor if the attack is sustained for extended periods of time.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0031
EPSS Percentile 54.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-401
Status published

Affected Products (50)

vmware/esxi
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... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Oct 20, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026