vulnerability

VMware VMware Tools: CVE-2020-3972: VMware Tools for macOS update addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 18, 2020
Added
Jun 3, 2025
Modified
Apr 15, 2026

Description

VMware Tools for macOS contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Host-Guest File System (HGFS) implementation. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with non-admin privileges on guest macOS virtual machines to create a denial-of-service condition on their own VMs.

Solution

vmware-tools-upgrade-latest
Title
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