Medium 6.5Published Jul 25, 2018

CVE-2018-6972VMware 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…

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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.

CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-476
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

vmware workstation vmware:workstation	from 14.0 before 14.1.2	NVD
vmware fusion vmware:fusion	from 10.0 before 10.1.2	NVD
vmware esxi vmware:esxi	5.5; 5.5; 5.5; 5.5; 5.5; 5.5; 5.5; 6.0; and 114 more ranges	NVD

References

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884	third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356	broken-link, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357	broken-link, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.html	patch, vendor-advisory

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