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CVE-2020-3958

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5 EPSS 0.45% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-05-29 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It affects VMware, VMWare, ESXi. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
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CVE
CVE-2020-3958
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.45%
VMware VMWare ESXi

Original NVD Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.2) and VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability in the shader functionality. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with non-administrative access to a virtual machine to crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition.

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