CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-4945

Published: Jan 05, 2018 | Modified: Oct 03, 2019
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

VMware Workstation (14.x and 12.x) and Fusion (10.x and 8.x) contain a guest access control vulnerability. This issue may allow program execution via Unity on locked Windows VMs. VMware Tools must be updated to 10.2.0 for each VM to resolve CVE-2017-4945. VMware Tools 10.2.0 is consumed by Workstation 14.1.0 and Fusion 10.1.0 by default.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Workstation Vmware 12.0.0 (including) 12.0.0 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.0.1 (including) 12.0.1 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.1 (including) 12.1 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.1.1 (including) 12.1.1 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5 (including) 12.5 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.0 (including) 12.5.0 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.1 (including) 12.5.1 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.2 (including) 12.5.2 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.3 (including) 12.5.3 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.4 (including) 12.5.4 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.5 (including) 12.5.5 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.6 (including) 12.5.6 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.7 (including) 12.5.7 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.8 (including) 12.5.8 (including)
Workstation Vmware 12.5.9 (including) 12.5.9 (including)
Workstation Vmware 14.0 (including) 14.0 (including)

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