CVE-2017-4898

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 7, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 26, 2016

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Workstation Pro/PlayerVMware	12.x prior to version 12.5.3Affected

References

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0003.html
96772vdb-entry
1037979vdb-entry

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