Security Advisory

CVE-2017-4898

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-06-07 18:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 14:39:41

Assigner vmware

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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