DLL Loading Vulnerability in VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.x

CVE-2017-4898 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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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