Denial of service in VMware Fusion and VMware Workstation - CVE-2018-6957

Vulnerability identifier: #VU11121

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-6957

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists on the VNC manually enabled systems due to unspecified error. A remote attacker can open a large number of VNC sessions to cause unspecified denial of service conditions.

VMware Fusion
VMware Workstation

Update VMware Fusion to version 10.1.1.
Update VMware Workstation to version 14.1.1.

• https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0008.html

• Denial of service in VMware Workstation and Fusion