CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-4898.md

CVE-2017-4898

Description

VMware Workstation Pro/Player 12.x before 12.5.3 contains a DLL loading vulnerability that occurs due to the "vmware-vmx" process loading DLLs from a path defined in the local environment-variable. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow normal users to escalate privileges to System in the host machine where VMware Workstation is installed.

POC

Reference

• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0003.html

Github

• https://github.com/ivildeed/vmw_vmx_overloader