Description
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.
Published: 2020-12-21
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-25264 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.
History

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 10:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0:update_1b:*:*:*:*:*:*

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T07:52:20.757Z

Reserved: 2019-12-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-3999

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No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-12-21T16:15:13.177

Modified: 2025-08-08T10:32:53.753

Link: CVE-2020-3999

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Weaknesses