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.

CVSS v3.0

8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

6.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 32th percentile

Published

2017-06-07

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• ivildeed/vmw_vmx_overloader141★ · 2017-04-04

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-4011
• CVE-2017-4901
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• CVE-2017-4914