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ghsa-f537-rwg7-cjw7

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-24 17:34

Modified

2022-05-24 17:34

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)

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  "modified": "2022-05-24T17:34:41Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:34:41Z",
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cve-2020-4005

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2020-11-20 19:06

Modified

2024-08-04 07:52

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0026.html	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	VMware ESXi

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

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Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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