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CVE-2017-4924
VMware ESXi (ESXi 6.5 without patch ESXi650-201707101-SG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.7) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.8) contain an…
High8.8EPSS 0.61%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- vmware
Description
VMware ESXi (ESXi 6.5 without patch ESXi650-201707101-SG), Workstation (12.x before 12.5.7) and Fusion (8.x before 8.5.8) contain an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in SVGA device. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.
Timeline
ID reserved
By vmware
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.61% · top 51% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- Out-of-bounds write vulnerability
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (5)
- 1039365 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 100843 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1039366 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0015.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://0patch.blogspot.com/2017/10/micropatching-hypervisor-with-running.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-14041 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2017-4924)Record last updated .