Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-3960

High

Published: 15 September 2021

Published
15 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0005 17.4th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-3960 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Vmware Vsphere Esxi. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 17.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202006401-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in NVMe functionality. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to a virtual machine with a virtual…

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NVMe controller present may be able to read privileged information contained in physical memory.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

vmware
fusion
11.0.0 — 11.5.5
vmware
workstation
15.0.0 — 15.5.5
vmware
vsphere esxi
6.5, 6.7

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References