CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4939

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-11-17 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-11-17
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-426

Description

VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) installer contains a DLL hijacking issue that exists due to some DLL files loaded by the application improperly. This issue may allow an attacker to load a DLL file of the attacker's choosing that could execute arbitrary code.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation 12.0.0 • vmware workstation 12.0.1 • vmware workstation 12.1.1 • vmware workstation 12.5.0 • vmware workstation 12.5.1 • vmware workstation 12.5.2 • vmware workstation 12.5.3 • vmware workstation 12.5.4 • vmware workstation 12.5.5 • vmware workstation 12.5.6 • vmware workstation 12.5.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References