CVE-2017-4916

medium VMware
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
9.5%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 7% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: May 22, 2017 (3279 days ago)
Last Modified: May 13, 2026
Vendor: VMware
Source: NVD

Description

VMware Workstation Pro/Player contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that exists in the vstor2 driver. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow host users with normal user privileges to trigger a denial-of-service in a Windows host machine.

CWE

CWE-476

Affected Products

vmware workstation playervmware workstation pro

References

🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 www.exploit-db.com 🔗 www.vmware.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com