Riskcovery

CVE-2020-4005

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Nov 20, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Dec 30, 2019

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Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG) contains a privilege-escalation vulnerability that exists in the way certain system calls are being managed. A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may escalate their privileges on the affected system. Successful exploitation of this issue is only possible when chained with another vulnerability (e.g. CVE-2020-4004)

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
VMware ESXin/a
  • 7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206Affected
  • 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SGAffected
  • 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SGAffected

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