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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

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Updated: 2024-08-05T14:39:41.379Z

Reserved: 2016-12-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-4898

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-07T18:29:00.210

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-4898

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