CVE-2018-6972 Information

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG) Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357 https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5