Design/Logic Flaw

2017-06-0718:29:00

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8.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

21.0%

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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.

CPENameOperatorVersion
workstation_playereq12.0.0
workstation_playereq12.5.1
workstation_playereq12.5.2
workstation_playereq12.1.0
workstation_playereq12.0.1
workstation_playereq12.5.0
workstation_proeq12.5.2
workstation_proeq12.0.1
workstation_proeq12.1.0
workstation_proeq12.5.1

Name	Operator	Version
workstation_player	eq	12.0.0
workstation_player	eq	12.5.1
workstation_player	eq	12.5.2
workstation_player	eq	12.1.0
workstation_player	eq	12.0.1
workstation_player	eq	12.5.0
workstation_pro	eq	12.5.2
workstation_pro	eq	12.0.1
workstation_pro	eq	12.1.0
workstation_pro	eq	12.5.1