CVE-2020-3947: VMware Fusion

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.5.2) and Fusion (11.x before 11.5.2) contain a use-after vulnerability in vmnetdhcp. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to code execution on the host from the guest or may allow attackers to create a denial-of-service condition of the vmnetdhcp service running on the host machine.

Affected products

• VMware Fusion: after 11.0.0, before 11.5.2 (fixed in 11.5.2)
• VMware Workstation: from 15.0.0, before 15.5.2 (fixed in 15.5.2)

Published 2020-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.