Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2018-6972 First vendor Publication 2018-07-25
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2022-06-02

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 6.5
Base Score 6.5 Environmental Score 6.5
impact SubScore 3.6 Temporal Score 6.5
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.8
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-6972

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 107
Os 122

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884
CONFIRM https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.html
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357

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Date Informations
2022-06-03 00:27:30
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2021-05-05 01:31:56
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2021-05-04 13:19:32
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2021-04-22 02:34:31
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2020-05-23 02:19:59
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2020-05-23 01:19:02
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2018-10-03 00:19:31
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2018-07-28 09:19:24
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2018-07-27 09:18:59
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2018-07-25 17:19:14
  • First insertion