CVE-2018-6969
N/A
Published: July 13, 2018 at 01:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:02 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTools
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
Description
VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (3)
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104737VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041291x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0017.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-125
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