CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-4915
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-863
Description
VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains an insecure library loading vulnerability via ALSA sound driver configuration files. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to escalate their privileges to root in a Linux host machine.
Affected configurations
• vmware workstation player 12.0.0
• vmware workstation pro 12.0.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98566 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038525 www.securitytracker.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42045/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0009.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98566 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038525 www.securitytracker.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42045/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0009.html Patch, Vendor Advisory