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Kaspersky LabKLA11037

HistoryMar 14, 2017 - 12:00 a.m.

KLA11037 Arbitrary code execution vulnerability in VMware products

2017-03-1400:00:00

Kaspersky Lab

threats.kaspersky.com

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

73.7%

JSON

An out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability in the DnD (drag-and-drop) function was found in VMware Workstation Pro and VMware Workstation Player. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can execute arbitrary code on the operating system running VMware Workstation Pro or VMware Workstation Player.

Original advisories

VMware Security Advisory

Exploitation

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

VMware-Workstation

VMware-Player

CVE list

CVE-2017-4901 critical

Solution

Update to the latest version

Download VMware Workstation Pro

Impacts

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.