CVE-2017-4898

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 8.8. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

VMware Workstation

First reported 7 years ago

2017-06-07 18:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

VMware Workstation Player 12.0.0

12.0.0

VMware Workstation Player 12.0.1

12.0.1

VMware Workstation Player 12.1.0

12.1.0

VMware Workstation Player 12.5.0

12.5.0

VMware Workstation Player 12.5.1

12.5.1

VMware Workstation Pro 12.0.0

12.0.0

VMware Workstation Pro 12.0.1

12.0.1

VMware Workstation Pro 12.1.0

12.1.0

VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.0

12.5.0

VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.1

12.5.1

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