CVE-2017-4916

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Published 2017-05-22 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@vmware.com — https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0009.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.0.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.0.0

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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