CVE-2017-4898

EPSS 0.4%

Vexday Risk Score

3Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS —EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

07 Jun 2017Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

Affected products

VMware · Workstation Pro/Player

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References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96772 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037979 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0003.html