CVE-2017-4925

medium

Published 2017-09-15 · 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:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

VMware ESXi 6.5 without patch ESXi650-201707101-SG, ESXi 6.0 without patch ESXi600-201706101-SG, ESXi 5.5 without patch ESXi550-201709101-SG, Workstation (12.x before 12.5.3), Fusion (8.x before 8.5.4) contain a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. This issue occurs when handling guest RPC requests. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

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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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos	-	not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
vmware	workstation	`{"startIncluding":"12.0.0","endExcluding":"12.5.3"}`	`12.5.3`
vmware	workstation_pro	`{"startIncluding":"12.0.0","endExcluding":"12.5.3"}`	`12.5.3`
vmware	fusion	`{"startIncluding":"8.0.0","endExcluding":"8.5.4"}`	`8.5.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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

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