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VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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 read 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 issue to leak memory from the vmx process.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 20, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

0.201%
(58th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2020-3981

GHSA ID

GHSA-9v5h-wgx5-jxxj

Source code

No known source code

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