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GHSA-X697-2XRM-FH6R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:37 – Updated: 2025-08-08 12:32

Details

VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551), VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7), VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x prior to 11.5.7) and VMware Cloud Foundation contain a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in GuestInfo. A malicious actor with normal user privilege access to a virtual machine can crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2020-3999 (GCVE-0-2020-3999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-12-21 15:14 – Updated: 2024-08-04 07:52

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

Assigner

vmware mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	VMware ESXi, VMware Workstation,VMware Fusion and VMware Cloud Foundation	Affected: VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551), VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7)and VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x prior to 11.5.7)

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