CVE-2020-3963 Use after free in Fusion

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A local attacker in a virtual machine can read privileged physical memory information due to a use-after-free flaw in VMware virtualization products.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-3963?

CVE-2020-3963 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Vmware Cloud Foundation, published on 25 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202006401-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.2), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2) contain a use-after-free vulnerability in PVNVRAM. A malicious actor with local access to a virtual machine may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-3963?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Vmware Cloud Foundation, Vmware Esxi, Vmware Fusion, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2020-3963?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-3963 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2020-3963 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-3963 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Vmware Cloud Foundation vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jgx9-22v4-g4h8.

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