CVE-2018-6972

MEDIUM

VMware Workstation 14.0-14.1.1 and Fusion 10.0-10.1.1 - Denial of Service via RPC Handler NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0279
EPSS Percentile 86.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (2)
vmware/esxi 5.5 (7 CPE variants)
vmware/esxi 6.0 (43 CPE variants)
Published Jul 25, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026