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VMware Fusion: Vulnerability (VMSA-2020-0020) (CVE-2020-3980)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 16, 2020
Added
Oct 22, 2020
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

vmware-fusion-upgrade-11_5_7
Title
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