CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-6981

8.8 HIGH Published 2018-12-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-908

Description

VMware ESXi 6.7 without ESXi670-201811401-BG and VMware ESXi 6.5 without ESXi650-201811301-BG, VMware ESXi 6.0 without ESXi600-201811401-BG, VMware Workstation 15, VMware Workstation 14.1.3 or below, VMware Fusion 11, VMware Fusion 10.1.3 or below contain uninitialized stack memory usage in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter which may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation (>= 14.0.0 < 14.1.4) • vmware workstation 15.0.0 • vmware fusion (>= 10.0.0 < 10.1.4) • vmware fusion 11.0.0 • vmware esxi 6.0 • vmware esxi 6.5 • vmware esxi 6.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness

References