{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-3950 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2020-3950 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 3 May 2022.","what":"CVE-2020-3950 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Fusion, published on 17 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-3950 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-3950 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Fusion, published on 17 Mar 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2020-3950 in the wild since at least 3 Nov 2021.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Fusion. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-3950/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-3950/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-3950","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-3950/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-3950","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-fx3w-hj7j-hfgf"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware virtualization software","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers with normal user privileges can escalate to root on systems running VMware Fusion, VMRC, or Horizon Client for Mac due to improper setuid binary usage.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"fusion","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"horizon_client","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"remote_console","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"description":"VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2), VMware Remote Console for Mac (11.x and prior before 11.0.1) and Horizon Client for Mac (5.x and prior before 5.4.0) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper use of setuid binaries. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to escalate their privileges to root on the system where Fusion, VMRC or Horizon Client is installed.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":3,"first_seen":"2020-03-17","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2020-03-17","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/osx/local/vmware_fusion_lpe","stars":null,"title":"VMware Fusion USB Arbitrator Setuid Privilege Escalation"},{"date":"2020-03-20","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"48235","stars":null,"title":"VMware Fusion 11.5.2 - Privilege Escalation"},{"date":"2020-04-16","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"48337","stars":null,"title":"VMware Fusion - USB Arbitrator Setuid Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)"},{"date":"2020-04-16","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"48337","stars":null,"title":"VMware Fusion - USB Arbitrator Setuid Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"VMware Multiple Products Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2020-3950","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2021-11-03","dueDate":"2022-05-03","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"Multiple Products","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions.","vendorProject":"VMware","vulnerabilityName":"VMware Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:fusion","products":["vmware:fusion"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Memory corruption in VMware Workstation and Horizon Client for Windows","id":"CVE-2020-3951"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Privilege escalation in Fusion","id":"CVE-2020-3948"},"products":["VMware Fusion, VMware Remote Console for Mac and Horizon Client for Mac"],"published":"2020-03-17","related":[{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Memory corruption in Fusion Pro / Fusion","id":"CVE-2017-4901","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-06-08"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Use after free in VMware Fusion","id":"CVE-2024-22267","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-14"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Memory corruption in Workstation and Fusion","id":"CVE-2019-5541","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-20"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Code-execution vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-38811","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-09-03"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation) and VMware Fusion","id":"CVE-2023-20872","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Use after free in Fusion","id":"CVE-2020-3947","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-16"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-21","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers with normal user privileges can escalate to root on systems running VMware Fusion, VMRC, or Horizon Client for Mac due to improper setuid binary usage.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-3950/"}