CVE-2018-6969 (GCVE-0-2018-6969)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-07-13 13:00
Modified
2024-09-17 03:42
Severity ?
CWE
  • Out-of-bounds read vulnerability
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
VMware VMware Tools Version: 10.x and prior before 10.3.0
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