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

CVE-2020-4005

CVE-2020-4005

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)

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Affected products

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  • VMware/Esxillm-fuzzy
    Range: >=6.5 <ESXi650-202011301-SG, >=6.7 <ESXi670-202011101-SG, >=7.0 <ESXi70U1b-17168206

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