CVE-2017-4905

medium

Published 2017-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

VMware ESXi 6.5 without patch ESXi650-201703410-SG, 6.0 U3 without patch ESXi600-201703401-SG, 6.0 U2 without patch ESXi600-201703403-SG, 6.0 U1 without patch ESXi600-201703402-SG, 5.5 without patch ESXi550-201703401-SG; Workstation Pro / Player 12.x prior to 12.5.5; and Fusion Pro / Fusion 8.x prior to 8.5.6 have uninitialized memory usage. This issue may lead to an information leak.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-47715 local windows

unamer · 2019-06-06

VMware WorkStation 12.5.3 - Virtual Machine Escape

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos	-	not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
vmware	fusion	`{"startIncluding":"8.0.0","endExcluding":"8.5.6"}`	`8.5.6`
vmware	fusion_pro	`{"startIncluding":"8.0.0","endExcluding":"8.5.6"}`	`8.5.6`
vmware	workstation_player	`{"startIncluding":"12.0.0","endExcluding":"12.5.5"}`	`12.5.5`
vmware	workstation_pro	`{"startIncluding":"12.0.0","endExcluding":"12.5.5"}`	`12.5.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-908

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

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