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CVE-2017-4898

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 0.39% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-06-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

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CVE
CVE-2017-4898
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.8
EPSS
0.39%
VMware VMWare

Original NVD Description

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.