VMSA-2020-0018: Partial denial of service vulnerability via authentication services (CVE-2020-3976)
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/21/2020
08/28/2020
08/27/2020
08/31/2020
Description
VMware ESXi and vCenter Server contain a partial denial of service vulnerability in their respective authentication services. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 5.3.
Solution(s)
- vmware-esxi65-upgrade-16576891
- vmware-esxi67-upgrade-16713306
- vmware-esxi70-upgrade-16324942
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