CVE-2018-6973

CVE-2018-6973: vulnerability in VMware Workstation

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3Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 0.5%
VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.3) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.3) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the e1000 device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.
Affected products
VMware · FusionVMware · Workstation
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