CVE-2017-4945 (GCVE-0-2017-4945)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-05 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:11
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Guest access control vulnerability
Assigner
vmware CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 228 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040109 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMS… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102441 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040136 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
VMware Workstation Affected: 14.x
Affected: 12.x
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VMware Fusion Affected: 10.x
Affected: 8.x
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Date Public
2018-01-04 00:00
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

Nomenclature

  • Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
  • Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
  • Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
  • Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
  • Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline

Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.