CVE-2023-34044

Information disclosure vulnerability in bluetooth device-sharing functionality

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.1
EPSS: EPSS 0.20 % · percentile 9 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-10-20
Updated: 2024-08-02
Assigner: vmware
NVD status: Modified

Description

VMware Workstation( 17.x prior to 17.5) and Fusion(13.x prior to 13.5) contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability that exists in the functionality for sharing host Bluetooth devices with the virtual machine. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual machine may be able to read privileged information contained in hypervisor memory from a virtual machine.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	vmware
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · security@vmware.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 6.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-125

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-38163
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-34044

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2023-AVI-0870 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 17.0.0 < 17.5
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 13.0.0 < 13.5

Affected products

Product	Versions
VMware · Workstation	affected 17.x < 17.5
VMware · Fusion	affected 13.x < 13.5

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2023-0022.html

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