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CVE-2017-4898
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-06-07T18:29:00.210 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:19:31.233

Summary

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

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References

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