VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.x before 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2017-06-07T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T14:39:41.379Z

Reserved: 2016-12-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-4898

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-07T18:29:00.210

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:26:37.573

Link: CVE-2017-4898

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