CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-6969

7.0 HIGH Published 2018-07-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-13
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])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.

Affected configurations

• vmware tools (< 10.3.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References