CVE-2017-4898

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

VMware Workstation Player: 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.1.0, 12.5.0, 12.5.1, 12.5.2
VMware Workstation Pro: 12.0.0, 12.0.1, 12.1.0, 12.5.0, 12.5.1, 12.5.2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96772
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037979
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0003.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96772
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037979
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0003.html

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