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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-25245 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.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T07:52:20.602Z

Reserved: 2019-12-30T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-3980

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-09-16T17:15:13.827

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:32:06.280

Link: CVE-2020-3980

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.