CVE-2018-6957

MediumCVSS 5.3/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.1, 12.x) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.1 and 8.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.3/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-772

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Mar 15, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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