CVE-2018-6969

Published Jul 13, 2018

Last updated 4 days ago

Overview

Description
VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.
Source
security@vmware.com
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.4
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
3.4
Vector string
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-125

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations