VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-4938

medium
Published 2017-11-17 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a guest RPC NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation12.0.0
vmware vmwareworkstation12.0.1
vmware vmwareworkstation12.1
vmware vmwareworkstation12.1.1
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.1
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.2
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.3
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.4
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.5
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.6
vmware vmwareworkstation12.5.7
vmware vmwarefusion8.0.0
vmware vmwarefusion8.0.1
vmware vmwarefusion8.0.2
vmware vmwarefusion8.1.0
vmware vmwarefusion8.1.1
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.0
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.1
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.2
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.3
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.4
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.5
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.6
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.7
vmware vmwarefusion8.5.8

References

CWEs

CWE-476

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.