Detections
Analytics
VMware Player 12.x < 12.5.9 / 14.x < 14.1.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2018-0004) (VMSA-2018-0005) (Spectre)
high Nessus Plugin ID 105783
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Synopsis
A virtualization application installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.Description
The version of VMware Player installed on the remote Windows host is 14.x prior to 14.1.1 or 12.x prior to 12.5.9. It is, therefore, missing security updates that add hypervisor-assisted guest remediation for a speculative execution vulnerability (CVE-2017-5715). These updates will allow guest operating systems to use hardware support for branch target mitigation and require guest OS security updates as detailed in VMware Knowledge Base article 52085.It is also affected by use-after-free and integer-overflow vulnerabilities.
Note that hypervisor-specific remediation's for this vulnerability were released as part of VMSA-2018-0002.
Solution
Upgrade to VMware Player version 12.5.9 / 14.1.1 or later.See Also
https://www.vmware.com/us/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0004.html
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0005.html
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 105783
File Name: vmware_player_win_vmsa_2018_0004.nasl
Version: 1.9
Type: local
Agent: windows
Family: Windows
Published: 1/12/2018
Updated: 11/8/2019
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.9
Temporal Score: 6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-4950
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7
Temporal Score: 6.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:vmware:player
Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/VMware Player
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 1/9/2018
Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2018