CVE-2017-4941high
Description
VMware ESXi (6.0 before ESXi600-201711101-SG, 5.5 ESXi550-201709101-SG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8), and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated VNC session to cause a stack overflow via a specific set of VNC packets. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in remote code execution in a virtual machine via the authenticated VNC session. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible in ESXi, VNC must be manually enabled in a virtual machine's .vmx configuration file. In addition, ESXi must be configured to allow VNC traffic through the built-in firewall.
References
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0021.html
Details
Source: MITRE
Published: 2017-12-20
Updated: 2022-02-03
Type: CWE-119
Risk Information
CVSS v2
Base Score: 6
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Impact Score: 6.4
Exploitability Score: 6.8
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v3
Base Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Impact Score: 5.9
Exploitability Score: 2.8
Severity: HIGH