CVE-2020-3941: VMware Tools

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The repair operation of VMware Tools for Windows 10.x.y has a race condition which may allow for privilege escalation in the Virtual Machine where Tools is installed. This vulnerability is not present in VMware Tools 11.x.y since the affected functionality is not present in VMware Tools 11.

Affected products

• VMware Tools: from 10.0.0, before 11.0.0 (fixed in 11.0.0)

Published 2020-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.