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CVE-2017-4898

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CVSS 3.0
8.8 high
EPSS
<1%p33
Published
()
Modified
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.

Vendors
vmware
Products
workstation player, workstation pro
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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