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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0026) (CVE-2020-4004)

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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0026) (CVE-2020-4004)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/20/2020
Created
11/25/2020
Added
11/24/2020
Modified
12/07/2020

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.7), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.7) contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-11_5_7

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