CVE-2020-4004
VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.7), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.7) contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 8.2 (v3.1)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-416
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (34th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2020-25269)
- Published
- November 20, 2020
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2020-25269 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 4, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
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Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 3d - VMware Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11249-2022 - archived
References
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0026.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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