CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4945

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-01-05 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-05
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Description

VMware Workstation (14.x and 12.x) and Fusion (10.x and 8.x) contain a guest access control vulnerability. This issue may allow program execution via Unity on locked Windows VMs. VMware Tools must be updated to 10.2.0 for each VM to resolve CVE-2017-4945. VMware Tools 10.2.0 is consumed by Workstation 14.1.0 and Fusion 10.1.0 by default.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation 12.0.0 • vmware workstation 12.0.1 • vmware workstation 12.1 • vmware workstation 12.1.1 • vmware workstation 12.5 • 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 • vmware workstation 12.5.8 • vmware workstation 12.5.9 • vmware workstation 14.0 • vmware fusion 8.0 • vmware fusion 8.0.1 • vmware fusion 8.0.2 • vmware fusion 8.1 • vmware fusion 8.1.1 • vmware fusion 8.5 • vmware fusion 8.5.1 • vmware fusion 8.5.2 • vmware fusion 8.5.3 • vmware fusion 8.5.4 • vmware fusion 8.5.5 • vmware fusion 8.5.6 • vmware fusion 8.5.7 • vmware fusion 8.5.8 • vmware fusion 8.5.9 • vmware fusion 8.5.10 • vmware fusion 10.0 • vmware fusion 10.0.1 • vmware fusion 10.1.0 • vmware fusion 10.1.1

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