CVE-2018-6969

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

13 Jul 2018Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.

Affected products

VMware · VMware Tools

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References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0017.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104737 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041291