CVE-2018-6969

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.004 · 34 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.40% (34th) EPSS

CVSS 4.4 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.

cvss

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

7.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.4–7

v2.04.4mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 6.4

v3.07highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1 · impact 5.9

v3.06.4mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-125USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

VMware VMware Tools≤ 10.x and prior before 10.3.0enisa_euvdEU
vmware tools< 10.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-13modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104737 cnnvd
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0017.html cnnvd
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104737 enisa_euvd
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041291 enisa_euvd
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0017.html enisa_euvd
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104737Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041291Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0017.htmlPatchVendor Advisorynvd

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