Vmware Intel Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software out-of-bounds write

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Vmware Intel Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software up to 2.0.1. Affected is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in out-of-bounds write. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-20879. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Vmware Intel Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software up to 2.0.1. This affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds write vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-787. The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Out-of-bounds write for the Intel(R) Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software before version 2.0.2 within Ring 1: Device Drivers may allow a denial of service. System software adversary with a privileged user combined with a low complexity attack may enable data corruption. 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 (none), integrity (high) and availability (high) of the vulnerable system, resulting in subsequent system confidentiality (none), integrity (high) and availability (high) impacts.

It is possible to read the advisory at intel.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-20879 since 12/03/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (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

Name

• Intel Data Center Graphics Driver for VMware ESXi software

Version

• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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