CVE-2017-4945

First published: Fri Jan 05 2018(Updated: )

VMware Workstation (14.x and 12.x) and Fusion (10.x and 8.x) contain a guest access control vulnerability. This issue may allow program execution via Unity on locked Windows VMs. VMware Tools must be updated to 10.2.0 for each VM to resolve CVE-2017-4945. VMware Tools 10.2.0 is consumed by Workstation 14.1.0 and Fusion 10.1.0 by default.

Credit: security@vmware.com

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
VMware Workstation	=12.0.0
VMware Workstation	=12.0.1
VMware Workstation	=12.1
VMware Workstation	=12.1.1
VMware Workstation	=12.5
VMware Workstation	=12.5.0
VMware Workstation	=12.5.1
VMware Workstation	=12.5.2
VMware Workstation	=12.5.3
VMware Workstation	=12.5.4
VMware Workstation	=12.5.5
VMware Workstation	=12.5.6
VMware Workstation	=12.5.7
VMware Workstation	=12.5.8
VMware Workstation	=12.5.9
VMware Workstation	=14.0
VMware Fusion	=8.0
VMware Fusion	=8.0.1
VMware Fusion	=8.0.2
VMware Fusion	=8.1
VMware Fusion	=8.1.1
VMware Fusion	=8.5
VMware Fusion	=8.5.1
VMware Fusion	=8.5.2
VMware Fusion	=8.5.3
VMware Fusion	=8.5.4
VMware Fusion	=8.5.5
VMware Fusion	=8.5.6
VMware Fusion	=8.5.7
VMware Fusion	=8.5.8
VMware Fusion	=8.5.9
VMware Fusion	=8.5.10
VMware Fusion	=10.0
VMware Fusion	=10.0.1
VMware Fusion	=10.1.0
VMware Fusion	=10.1.1
Apple Mac OS X

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https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0003.html

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