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CVE-2020-3982

HIGH · CVSS 7.7 EPSS 0.83% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-10-20 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2020-3982
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.7
EPSS
0.83%
VMware VMWare ESXi

Original NVD Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to crash the virtual machine's vmx process or corrupt hypervisor's memory heap.