The drag-and-drop (DnD) function in VMware Workstation 12.x before version 12.5.4 and Fusion 8.x before version 8.5.5 has an out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability. This may allow a guest to execute code on the operating system that runs Workstation or Fusion.

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-4901

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-8xg8-8x73-gmmx

Published

May 17, 2022 2:30 AM

Last Modified

May 17, 2022 2:30 AM

CVSS Score

9.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: August 3, 2025 6:48 AM

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