CVE-2014-3793

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

VMware Tools in VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.2, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.2, VMware Fusion 6.x before 6.0.3, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5, when a Windows 8.1 guest OS is used, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (kernel NULL pointer dereference and guest OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

VMware ESXi: 5.0-1, 5.0-2, 5.1-1; 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 (and their updates)
VMware Fusion: 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2 (and their updates)
VMware Player: 6.0, 6.0.1 (and their updates)
VMware Workstation: 10.0, 10.0.1 (and their updates)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/126869/VMware-Security-Advisory-2014-0005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/58894
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532236/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030310
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030311
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0005.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/126869/VMware-Security-Advisory-2014-0005.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/58894
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532236/100/0/threaded
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030310
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030311
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0005.html

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