CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4898

8.8 HIGH Published 2017-06-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation player 12.0.0 • vmware workstation player 12.0.1 • vmware workstation player 12.1.0 • vmware workstation player 12.5.0 • vmware workstation player 12.5.1 • vmware workstation player 12.5.2 • vmware workstation pro 12.0.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.0.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.1.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.5.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.5.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.5.2

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