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CVE-2018-6977

VMware ESXi; VMware Workstation; VMware Fusion Published: (8 years ago)

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7, 6.5, 6.0), Workstation (15.x and 14.x) and Fusion (11.x and 10.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to an infinite loop in a 3D-rendering shader. Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attacker with normal user privileges in the guest to make the VM unresponsive, and in some cases, possibly result other VMs on the host or the host itself becoming unresponsive.

Data: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Ubuntu. Published as the sources state it, in English.

Affected products and versions

VendorProductVersions
VMware ESXi 6.7, 6.5, 6.0
VMware Fusion 11.x and 10.x
VMware Workstation 15.x and 14.x

References and patches

Recent CVEs in the same product — VMware ESXi / vCenter

2.7Low
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VMware ESX, Workstation, and Fusion contain an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A malicious actor with VM deployment privileges could trigger an out-of-bounds read, potentially leading to information disclosure or more likely a Denial-of-Service (DoS) condit…

9.3Critical
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VMXNET3 out-of-bounds write vulnerability

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9.8Critical
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vCenter authentication-bypass vulnerability

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VMware vCenter contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the VMware Directory Service. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter may exploit this issue to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to the system.

9.8Critical
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vCenter directory-traversal vulnerability

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VMware vCenter contains a directory traversal vulnerability in the Syslog server. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code.

62%EPSS
8.0High
CVE-2026-41724

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VMware Cloud Foundation Operations contains multiple stored cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.A malicious actor with privileges to create policies, views or text-widgets may be able to inject scripts to perform administrative actions in VMware Cloud Founda…