CVE-2017-4898
VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.x before 12.5.3 contains a DLL loading vulnerability that occurs due to the "vmware-vmx" process loading DLLs from a path defined in the local environment-variable. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow normal users to escalate privileges to System in the host machine where VMware Workstation is installed.
- Score
- CVSS 3.0 8.8 High
- Status
- Modified - security@vmware.com
- Published
- 2017-06-07
- Last modified
- 2024-08-05
Affected products
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96772
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037979
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0003.html
