CVE-2017-4941
At a glance Severity Not available EPSS EPSS 3.16 % · percentile 88 (2026-10-28) State PUBLISHED Published 2017-12-20 Updated 2024-09-16 Assigner vmware NVD status Modified Description VMware ESXi (6.0 before ESXi600-201711101-SG, 5.5 ESXi550-201709101-SG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8), and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated VNC session to cause a stack overflow via a specific set of VNC packets. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in remote code execution in a virtual machine via the authenticated VNC session. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible in ESXi, VNC must be manually enabled in a virtual machine's .vmx configuration file. In addition, ESXi must be configured to allow VNC traffic through the built-in firewall.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.1 HIGH 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM 6.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
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Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 8.0.0 < 8.5.9cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 12.0.0 < 12.5.8cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:-:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:550-20170901001s:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:550-20170904001:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:1a:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:1b:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:2:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:3:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:3a:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201504401:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201505401:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507101:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507102:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507401:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507402:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507403:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507404:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507405:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507406:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201507407:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509101:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509102:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509201:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509202:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509203:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509204:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509205:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509206:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509207:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509208:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509209:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201509210:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201510401:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201511401:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201601101:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201601102:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:600-201601401:*:*:*:*:*:*+48 more Affected products
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