Is CVE-2020-3982 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2020-3982 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2020-3982?

CVE-2020-3982 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.7 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2020-3982?

CVE-2020-3982 has an EPSS score of 0.83% (53th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2020-3982?

Upgrade cloud foundation to 4.1 or later. Fixes are available for 2 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2020-3982

HIGH

7.7

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202008101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202007101-SG), Workstation (15.x), Fusion (11.x before 11.5.6) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability due to a time-of-check time-of-use issue in ACPI device. A malicious actor with administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to exploit this vulnerability to crash the virtual machine's vmx process or corrupt hypervisor's memory heap.

CWE-367TOCTOU Race Condition CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write

How to fix

Remediation Available

cloud foundationNVD

Affected:>= 4.0, < 4.1Fixed in:4.1CVE-2020-3982derived from NVD

fusionNVD

Affected:>= 11.0, < 11.5.6Fixed in:11.5.6CVE-2020-3982derived from NVD

Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityHigh

Privileges RequiredHigh

User InteractionNone

ScopeChanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.83%probability of exploitation in 30 days

53rdpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 53% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

vmware.com

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.