CVE-2023-20871: VMware Fusion

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Fusion contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with read/write access to the host operating system can elevate privileges to gain root access to the host operating system.

Affected products

• VMware Fusion: from 13.0.0, before 13.0.2 (fixed in 13.0.2)

Published 2023-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.