VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-4934

high
Published 2017-11-17 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
8.8

Description

VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a heap buffer-overflow vulnerability in VMNAT device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
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-2017-0018.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmwareworkstation12.0.0
vmwareworkstation12.0.1
vmwareworkstation12.1
vmwareworkstation12.1.1
vmwareworkstation12.5
vmwareworkstation12.5.1
vmwareworkstation12.5.2
vmwareworkstation12.5.3
vmwareworkstation12.5.4
vmwareworkstation12.5.5
vmwareworkstation12.5.6
vmwareworkstation12.5.7
vmwarefusion8.0.0
vmwarefusion8.0.1
vmwarefusion8.0.2
vmwarefusion8.1.0
vmwarefusion8.1.1
vmwarefusion8.5.0
vmwarefusion8.5.1
vmwarefusion8.5.2
vmwarefusion8.5.3
vmwarefusion8.5.4
vmwarefusion8.5.5
vmwarefusion8.5.6
vmwarefusion8.5.7
vmwarefusion8.5.8

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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