CVE-2017-4898

VMware Workstation Pro/Player

HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.39 % · percentile 33 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
vmware
NVD status
Modified

Description

VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.x before 12.5.3 contains a DLL loading vulnerability that occurs due to the "vmware-vmx" process loading DLLs from a path defined in the local environment-variable. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow normal users to escalate privileges to System in the host machine where VMware Workstation is installed.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
VMware · Workstation Pro/Playeraffected 12.x prior to version 12.5.3

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD