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

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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
09/16/2020
Created
10/22/2020
Added
10/22/2020
Modified
02/01/2021

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(s)

  • vmware-fusion-upgrade-11_5_7

References

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