Instituto Nacional de ciberseguridad. Sección Incibe
Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad. Sección INCIBE-CERT

Go to Calendar     Go to Press Room     Go to Newsletters subscription

Search

CVE-2017-4938

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
Publication date:
17/11/2017
Last modified:
20/04/2025

Description

VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a guest RPC NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

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

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

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
2.10
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:12.5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:8.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools