Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-4941
VMware ESXi (6.0 before ESXi600-201711101-SG, 5.5 ESXi550-201709101-SG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8), and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated VNC session to cause a stack overflow via a specific set of VNC packets. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in remote code execution in a virtual machine via the authenticated VNC session. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible in ESXi, VNC must be manually enabled in a virtual machine's .vmx configuration file. In addition, ESXi must be configured to allow VNC traffic through the built-in firewall.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.05
EPSS Ranking 89.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.8
CVSS v2 Score 6.0
References
Products affected by CVE-2017-4941
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.7
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.5.8
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.5
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.6
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cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.7
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cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:-
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cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5
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cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0