Security Advisory

CVE-2018-6969

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-07-13 13:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-17 03:42:42
Assigner vmware
State PUBLISHED

Description

VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.