Tracker / CVE-2020-4005
CVE-2020-4005
High 7.8
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)
Affected products and versions
| vmware | cloud_foundation · 3.0 → 3.10.1.2 |
|---|---|
| vmware | cloud_foundation · 4.0 → 4.1.0.1 |
| vmware | esxi |
Analysis
This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.