CVE-2020-3980

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.7
Exploit probability—
ProductVmware Fusion
PublishedSep 16, 2020
First seenSep 16, 2020

How to fix

Update
  • vmware fusion12.0.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
vmware fusion11.0.0 ≤ v < 12.0.012.0.0

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