cve-2017-4898
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-06-07 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 14:39
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
security@vmware.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96772Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@vmware.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037979
security@vmware.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0003.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
VMwareWorkstation Pro/Player
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