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CVE-2016-7461

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The drag-and-drop (aka DnD) function in VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.2 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.2 and VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro 8.x before 8.5.2 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access on the host OS) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware Fusion: 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.5.0 (+1)
• VMware Fusion Pro: 8.0.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2, 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.5.0 (+1)
• VMware Workstation Player: 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.5.0, 12.5.1
• VMware Workstation Pro: 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.5.0, 12.5.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94280
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037282
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0019.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94280
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037282
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0019.html

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