CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-4950
7.0 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-01-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
Description
VMware Workstation and Fusion contain an integer overflow vulnerability in VMware NAT service when IPv6 mode is enabled. This issue may lead to an out-of-bound read which can then be used to execute code on the host in conjunction with other issues. Note: IPv6 mode for VMNAT is not enabled by default.
Affected configurations
• vmware fusion (>= 8.0 < 8.5.10)
• vmware fusion (>= 10.0 < 10.1.1)
• vmware workstation (>= 12.0 < 12.5.9)
• vmware workstation (>= 14.0 < 14.1.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102490 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040161 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0005.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102490 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040161 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0005.html Patch, Vendor Advisory