CVE-2020-3956: VMware Vcloud Director

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 21.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Cloud Director 10.0.x before 10.0.0.2, 9.7.0.x before 9.7.0.5, 9.5.0.x before 9.5.0.6, and 9.1.0.x before 9.1.0.4 do not properly handle input leading to a code injection vulnerability. An authenticated actor may be able to send malicious traffic to VMware Cloud Director which may lead to arbitrary remote code execution. This vulnerability can be exploited through the HTML5- and Flex-based UIs, the API Explorer interface and API access.

Affected products

• VMware Vcloud Director: from 9.5.0.0, before 9.5.0.6 (fixed in 9.5.0.6); from 9.7.0.0, before 9.7.0.5 (fixed in 9.7.0.5); from 10.0.0.0, before 10.0.0.2 (fixed in 10.0.0.2); from 9.1.0.0, before 9.1.0.4 (fixed in 9.1.0.4)

Published 2020-05-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.