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CVE-2020-3976
VMware ESXi and vCenter Server contain a partial denial of service vulnerability in their respective authentication services. VMware has…
Medium5.3EPSS 2.1%
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- vmware
Description
VMware ESXi and vCenter Server contain a partial denial of service vulnerability in their respective authentication services. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Moderate severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 5.3.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
- Partial denial of service
- CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs
Affected products
ESXi, vCenter Server, and Cloud Foundation
- affected ESXi 7.0, 6.7, 6.5, vCenter Server 7.0, 6.7, 6.5, and Cloud Foundation 4.x.x, and 3.x.x release lines.
References (1)
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0018.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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