{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-x697-2xrm-fh6r",
  "modified": "2025-08-08T12:32:16Z",
  "published": "2022-05-24T17:37:10Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-3999"
  ],
  "details": "VMware ESXi (7.0 prior to ESXi70U1c-17325551), VMware Workstation (16.x prior to 16.0 and 15.x prior to 15.5.7), VMware Fusion (12.x prior to 12.0 and 11.x prior to 11.5.7) and VMware Cloud Foundation contain a denial of service vulnerability due to improper input validation in GuestInfo. A malicious actor with normal user privilege access to a virtual machine can crash the virtual machine's vmx process leading to a denial of service condition.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-3999"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0029.html"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20",
      "CWE-476"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-12-21T16:15:00Z"
  }
}