• VMware ESXi
• VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation)
• VMware Fusion Pro / Fusion (Fusion)
• VMware Cloud Foundation (Cloud Foundation) 

Multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation and Fusion were privately reported to VMware. Updates are available to remediate these vulnerabilities in affected VMware products.

VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion contain a use-after-free vulnerability in the XHCI USB controller. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.3.

A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may exploit this issue to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host.

To remediate CVE-2020-4004 apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Response Matrix' found below.

Workarounds for CVE-2020-4004 have been listed in the 'Workarounds' column of the 'Response Matrix' below.

None.

VMware would like to thank Xiao Wei and Tianwen Tang (VictorV) of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team working with the 2020 Tianfu Cup Pwn Contest for reporting this issue to us.

None.

VMware ESXi contains a privilege-escalation vulnerability that exists in the way certain system calls are being managed. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Important severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 8.8.

A malicious actor with privileges within the VMX process only, may escalate their privileges on the affected system. Successful exploitation of this issue is only possible when chained with another vulnerability (e.g. CVE-2020-4004).

To remediate CVE-2020-4005 apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Response Matrix' found below.

None.

None.

VMware would like to thank Xiao Wei and Tianwen Tang (VictorV) of Qihoo 360 Vulcan Team working with the 2020 Tianfu Cup Pwn Contest for reporting this issue to us.

None.

VMware ESXi 7.0 ESXi70U1b-17168206
Downloads and Documentation:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/rn/vsphere-esxi-70u1b.html

VMware ESXi 6.7 ESXi670-202011101-SG
Downloads and Documentation:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/rn/esxi670-202011002.html

VMware ESXi 6.5 ESXi650-202011301-SG
Downloads and Documentation:
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/esxi650-202011002.html

VMware Workstation Pro 15.5.7
Downloads and Documentation:
https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadworkstation
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/index.html

VMware Workstation Player 15.5.7
Downloads and Documentation:
https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Player/index.html

VMware Fusion 11.5.7
Downloads and Documentation:
https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadfusion
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/index.html

VMware vCloud Foundation 4.1.0.1
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/4.1/rn/VMware-Cloud-Foundation-41-Release-Notes.html#4.1.0.1

VMware vCloud Foundation 3.10.1.2
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Cloud-Foundation/3.10.1/rn/VMware-Cloud-Foundation-3101-Release-Notes.html#3.10.1.2

Mitre CVE Dictionary Links:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-4004
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-4005

FIRST CVSSv3 Calculator:
CVE-2020-4004 - https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2020-4005 - https://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.1#CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

2020-11-19 VMSA-2020-0026
Initial security advisory.

2020-11-24 VMSA-2020-0026.1
Updated security advisory to add VMware Cloud Foundation 3.x and 4.x versions in the response matrix of sections 3(a) and 3(b).

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