CVE-2017-4898

2017-06-0718:00:00

vmware

www.cve.org

6.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

21.0%

JSON

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.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Workstation Pro/Player",
    "vendor": "VMware",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "12.x prior to version 12.5.3"
      }
    ]
  }
]