CVE-2018-6957

lowpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.016 · 76 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.59% (76th) EPSS

CVSS 3.5 · low

Is it mine?

45 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.1, 12.x) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.1 and 8.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.5–5.3

v2.03.5lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 2.9

v3.05.3mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.6 · impact 3.6

v3.04.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-772USprimary

affected products (45)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

VMware Fusion≤ 8.xenisa_euvdEU
VMware Fusion≤ 10.x before 10.1.1enisa_euvdEU
VMware Workstation≤ 14.x before 14.1.1enisa_euvdEU
VMware Workstation≤ 12.xenisa_euvdEU
vmware fusion10.0 → 10.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion= 8.5.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation player= 12.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-03-15modified 2026-06-17

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