VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi70U1b-17168206, 6.7 before ESXi670-202011101-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202011301-SG) contains a privilege-escalation vulnerability that exists in the way certain system calls are being managed. 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)
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ESXi, Cloud Foundation, and desktop hypervisor users should get patching
VMware has revealed and repaired the flaws in its hypervisor discovered at China’s Tianfu Cup white hat hacking competition. CVE-2020-4004, rated critical due to its 9.3 on the CVSS scale, is described as a “Use-after-free vulnerability in XHCI USB controller”. It allows a malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine's VMX process running on the host. The VMX process runs in the VMkernel and is responsible for handling I/O...
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