CVE-2016-7083

high

Published 2016-12-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.0 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.0 on Windows, when Cortado ThinPrint virtual printing is enabled, allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (host OS memory corruption) via TrueType fonts embedded in EMFSPOOL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	workstation_player	`12.0.0`
vmware	workstation_player	`12.0.1`
vmware	workstation_player	`12.1.0`
vmware	workstation_player	`12.1.1`
vmware	workstation_pro	`12.0.0`
vmware	workstation_pro	`12.0.1`
vmware	workstation_pro	`12.1.0`
vmware	workstation_pro	`12.1.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.