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.
References
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https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0020.html | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: vmware
Published: 2020-09-16T16:13:40
Updated: 2020-09-16T16:13:40
Reserved: 2019-12-30T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-3980
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2020-09-16T17:15:13.827
Modified: 2021-07-21T11:39:23.747
Link: CVE-2020-3980
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