Vulnerability Details 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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 9.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.8
CVSS v2 Score 6.9
References
Products affected by CVE-2017-4898
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:12.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:12.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:12.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:12.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:12.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:12.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:12.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:12.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:12.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:12.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:12.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:12.5.2