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CVE-2020-3950
CWE-269
High
89.2
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
VMware Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2), VMware Remote Console for Mac (11.x and prior before 11.0.1) and Horizon Client for Mac (5.x and prior before 5.4.0) contain a privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper use of setuid binaries. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to escalate their privileges to root on the system where Fusion, VMRC or Horizon Client is installed.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 7.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 7.25%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Nov 2021
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Published
- 17 Mar 2020
- Last modified 30 Oct 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time