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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 20, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024

CVE-2020-4004

CVE-2020-4004

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.7), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.7) contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

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Affected products

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  • VMware/Esxillm-fuzzy
    Range: 7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206; 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG; 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG
  • VMware/Fusionllm-fuzzy
    Range: <11.5.7
  • VMware/Workstationllm-fuzzy
    Range: <15.5.7

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