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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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
Vulnrichment
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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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