CVE-2017-4916

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Publication date:

22/05/2017

Last modified:

20/04/2025

Description

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that exists in the vstor2 driver. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow host users with normal user privileges to trigger a denial-of-service in a Windows host machine.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

6.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

6.80

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:12.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:12.0.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:::::::*

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CVE-2017-4916

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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