VMware Intel Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software buffer overflow

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A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in VMware Intel Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software up to 2.0.1. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation results in buffer overflow. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-20794. The attack must be initiated from a local position. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in VMware Intel Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software up to 2.0.1. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow for the Intel(R) Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software before version 2.0.2 within Ring 1: Device Drivers may allow an escalation of privilege. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable local code execution. This result may potentially occur via local access when attack requirements are not present without special internal knowledge and requires no user interaction. The potential vulnerability may impact the confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (high), integrity (high) and availability (high) impacts.

The advisory is shared for download at intel.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-20794 since 12/03/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 05/12/2026).

Upgrading to version 2.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Hardware Driver Software

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• VMware

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• Intel Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software

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• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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