Vulnerability Details CVE-2020-3968
VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 3.0 controller (xHCI). A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition or execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine. Additional conditions beyond the attacker's control must be present for exploitation to be possible.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 28.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.2
CVSS v2 Score 4.6
Products affected by CVE-2020-3968
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:*
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.0.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.8
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.9
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:cloud_foundation:3.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.5.2
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cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.5
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cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.7
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cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:7.0.0