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CVE-2020-3986

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-3986 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Cortado ThinPrint component (EMF Parser) affecting VMware Workstation (15.x) and Horizon Client for Windows (5.x before 5.4.4). This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) allows a malicious actor with normal virtual machine access to cause a partial denial-of-service or leak memory from the TPView process. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.0.0, < 5.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:horizon_client:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:*
>= 15.0.0, < 16.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 15.0.0, < 16.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
22.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0030 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 15,940 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2020-0020.html
Vendor Advisory