CVE-2018-6972

MediumCVSS 6.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 6.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
VMware	ESXi	6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG; 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG; 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG; 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG
VMware	Workstation	14.x before 14.1.2
VMware	Fusion	10.x before 10.1.2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 25, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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