Security Advisory

CVE-2020-4005

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-11-20 19:06:25

Last updated 2024-08-04 07:52:20

Assigner vmware

State PUBLISHED

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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