CVE-2020-4008
The installer of the macOS Sensor for VMware Carbon Black Cloud (prior to 3.5.1) handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious…
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Description
The installer of the macOS Sensor for VMware Carbon Black Cloud (prior to 3.5.1) handles certain files in an insecure way. A malicious actor who has local access to the endpoint on which a macOS sensor is going to be installed, may overwrite a limited number of files with output from the sensor installation.
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low3.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.21% · top 89% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.
Weakness
- VMware Carbon Black Cloud macOS Sensor installer file overwrite issue
Affected products
VMware Carbon Black Cloud macOS Sensor
- affected VMware Carbon Black Cloud macOS Sensor (prior to 3.5.1)
References (1)
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0028.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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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-4008)Record last updated .