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VMware Fusion 11.x < 11.5.7 Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2020-0020)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140771

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Synopsis

A virtualization application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The version of VMware Fusion installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is 11.x. It is, therefore, affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it allows configuring the system wide path. An authenticated, local attacker with normal user privileges can exploit this issue to trick an admin user into executing malicious code on the system where Fusion is installed.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update to VMware Fusion 11.5.7 or later.

See Also

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0020.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140771

File Name: macosx_fusion_vmsa_2020_0020.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 9/24/2020

Updated: 1/8/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-3980

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:vmware:fusion

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, installed_sw/VMware Fusion

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-3980

VMSA: 2020-0020