CVE-2018-6957 (GCVE-0-2018-6957)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-15 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.1, 12.x) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.1 and 8.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- Denial-of-service vulnerability
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103431 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040539 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VMware | Workstation |
Affected:
14.x before 14.1.1
Affected: 12.x |
guessed | |
| VMware | Fusion |
Affected:
10.x before 10.1.1
Affected: 8.x |
guessed |
Date Public
2018-03-15 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
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.