CVE-2020-3952

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Apr 10, 2020
Updated: Oct 21, 2025
Reserved: Dec 30, 2019

Description

Under certain conditions, vmdir that ships with VMware vCenter Server, as part of an embedded or external Platform Services Controller (PSC), does not correctly implement access controls.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware vCenter Servern/a	vCenter Server 6.7 (embedded or external PSC) prior to 6.7u3f is affected by CVE-2020-3952 if it was upgraded from a previous release line such as 6.0 or 6.5. Clean installations of vCenter Server 6.7 (embedded or external PSC) are not affected.Affected

References

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