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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

Published: 2018-07-13T13:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:42:42.563Z

Reserved: 2018-02-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-6969

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2018-07-13T13:29:00.237

Modified: 2018-09-11T14:47:54.970

Link: CVE-2018-6969

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-07-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-6969 - Bugzilla