CVE-2020-3992

OpenSLP as used in VMware ESXi (7.0 before ESXi_7.0.1-0.0.16850804, 6.7 before ESXi670-202010401-SG, 6.5 before ESXi650-202010401-SG) has a use-after-free issue. A malicious actor residing in the management network who has access to port 427 on an ESXi machine may be able to trigger a use-after-free in the OpenSLP service resulting in remote code execution.

Affected products

Vmware Esxi

Vmware Cloud Foundation

< 3.10.1.2, 4.1.0.1

Vmware Esxi

= 6.5, 6.7, 7.0.0

Fix

Available

CVSS 2.0

10.0 HIGH

CVSS 3.1

9.8 CRITICAL

EPSS

83.0% (100th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-416

NVD status

Analyzed

Published

2020-10-20