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CVE-2018-6972

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before…

Medium6.5EPSS 3.0%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
vmware

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.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2018-6972, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
NVDNVD · Modified3.1Medium6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

Affected products

  • VMware · ESXi

    • affected 6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG
    • affected 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG
    • affected 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG
    • affected 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG

  • VMware · Workstation

    • affected 14.x before 14.1.2

  • VMware · Fusion

    • affected 10.x before 10.1.2

References (4)

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Record last updated .