VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-202004101-SG and 6.5 before ESXi650-202005401-SG), VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.1.0) and VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.1.0) contain a memory leak vulnerability in the VMCI module. A malicious actor with local non-administrative access to a virtual machine may be able to crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a partial denial of service.

Related CVEs

CVE-2020-3959

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-h8p9-vqgm-6wpx

Published

May 24, 2022 5:18 PM

Last Modified

May 24, 2022 5:18 PM

CVSS Score

2.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 19, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.