CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-6972

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-07-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation (>= 14.0 < 14.1.2) • vmware fusion (>= 10.0 < 10.1.2) • vmware esxi 5.5 • vmware esxi 6.0 • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References