CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5. It affects VMware, VMWare, ESXi. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2020-3999
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
0.35%
VMware VMWare ESXi
Original NVD 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.
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