VMware Workstation 12.x < 12.5.9 / 14.x < 14.1.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2018-0004) (VMSA-2018-0005) (Spectre)

high Nessus Plugin ID 105785

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Synopsis

A virtualization application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities

Description

The version of VMware Workstation installed on the remote Windows host is 14.x prior to 14.1.1 or 12.x prior to 12.5.9. It is, therefore, missing security updates that add hypervisor-assisted guest remediation for a speculative execution vulnerability (CVE-2017-5715). These updates will allow guest operating systems to use hardware support for branch target mitigation and will require guest OS security updates as detailed in VMware Knowledge Base article 52085.
It is also affected by use-after-free and integer-overflow vulnerabilities.

Note that hypervisor-specific remediation's for this vulnerability were released as part of VMSA-2018-0002.

Solution

Upgrade to VMware Workstation version 12.5.9 / 14.1.1 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 105785

File Name: vmware_workstation_win_vmsa_2018_0004.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 1/12/2018

Updated: 2/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-4950

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: manual

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:vmware:workstation

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/VMware Workstation

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-4949, CVE-2017-4950, CVE-2017-5715

BID: 102376, 102489, 102490

IAVA: 2018-A-0020

VMSA: 2018-0004, 2018-0005

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