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ghsa-4r3v-pr3q-qvw9

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:28

Modified

2022-05-24 17:28

Details

VMware Fusion (11.x) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it allows configuring the system wide path. An attacker with normal user privileges may exploit this issue to trick an admin user into executing malicious code on the system where Fusion is installed.

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cve-2020-3980

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-09-16 16:13

Modified

2024-08-04 07:52

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0020.html	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	VMware Fusion

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