CVE-2018-6973

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 0.49 % · percentile 42 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2018-08-15
Updated: 2024-09-17
Assigner: vmware
NVD status: Modified

Description

VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.3) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.3) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the e1000 device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.0	HIGH 8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	HIGH 7.2	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-787

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2018-18717
GCVE · GCVE-0-2018-6973

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2018-AVI-385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* > 10.0.0 < 10.1.3
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 14.0.0 < 14.1.3

Affected products

Product	Versions
VMware · Workstation	affected 14.x before 14.1.3
VMware · Fusion	affected 10.x before 10.1.3

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD