{"id":"CVE-2020-3968","aliases":["EUVD-2020-25233","GHSA-h4rr-vfvf-xcpv"],"status":"published","title":"VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before...","description":"VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 3.0 controller (xHCI). A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition or execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine. Additional conditions beyond the attacker's control must be present for exploitation to be possible.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00595,"percentile":0.48721,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-787"],"published":"2020-06-25T14:43:59Z","modified":"2026-06-17T03:19:21Z","products":[{"vendor":"vmware","product":"cloud_foundation"},{"vendor":"vmware","product":"esxi"},{"vendor":"vmware","product":"fusion"},{"vendor":"vmware","product":"vmware esxi"},{"vendor":"vmware","product":"workstation"}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0015.html","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","x_transferred","Vendor Advisory"]},{"url":"https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-20-781/","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3968"},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h4rr-vfvf-xcpv"}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2020-3968","description":"VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 3.0 controller (xHCI). 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A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to exploit this issue to crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition or execute code on the hypervisor from a virtual machine. Additional conditions beyond the attacker's control must be present for exploitation to be possible.","status":"published","published":"2022-05-24T17:21:41Z","modified":"2023-01-29T05:03:02Z","updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:45:13.764942Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2020-3968","description":"VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.0-1.20.16321839, 6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), Workstation (15.x before 15.5.5), and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.5) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the USB 3.0 controller (xHCI). 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