CVE-2018-6972

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CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

EPSS

3%p87

Published

Jul 25, 2018 (Jul 25, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Vendors: vmware
Products: workstation, fusion, esxi
Weakness: CWE-476
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.0%)

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