VMware Workstation (12.x before 12.5.8) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.9) contain a guest RPC NULL pointer dereference vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-4938

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-5hrp-c5g3-4mgq

Published

May 17, 2022 12:18 AM

Last Modified

May 17, 2022 12:18 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: September 19, 2025 6:29 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.