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CVSSv3

CVE-2017-4898

Published: 07/06/2017 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 6 | Exploitability Score: 2
VMScore: 614
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.x prior to 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.

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Github Repositories

https://github.com/ivildeed/vmw_vmx_overloader

Loading unsigned code into kernel in Windows 10 (64) with help of VMware Workstation Pro/Player design flaw

vmw_vmx_overloader Loading unsigned code into kernel of latest Windows 10 (64) with help of VMware Workstation Pro/Player design flaw It is well known, however in case you are not familiar - few words about workstation “hypervisor”: It is located inside vmware-vmxexe resources as elf executables Those elf’s from usermode resources are manually loaded into k

References

NVD-CWE-noinfohttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0003.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96772http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037979https://nvd.nist.govhttps://github.com/ivildeed/vmw_vmx_overloader
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