VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-4898

high
Published 2017-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/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
8.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.0.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.0.1
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.1.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.5.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.5.1
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.5.2
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.0.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.0.1
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.1.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.5.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.5.1
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.5.2

References

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

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