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GHSA-F537-RWG7-CJW7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:34 – Updated: 2025-10-31 12:30

Details

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)

Severity ?

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2020-4005 (GCVE-0-2020-4005)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-20 19:06 – Updated: 2024-08-04 07:52

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Privilege escalation vulnerability

Assigner

vmware

References

URL

Tags

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2…

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Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	VMware ESXi	Affected: 7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206 Affected: 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG Affected: 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG

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GHSA-F537-RWG7-CJW7

CVE-2020-4005 (GCVE-0-2020-4005)

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