CVE-2017-4916

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-4916 is a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the vstor2 driver of VMware Workstation Pro and Player, affecting Windows host machines. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) allows a local user with normal privileges to trigger a denial-of-service condition. While not actively exploited in the wild (no KEV entry), a public exploit (EDB-42140) exists, and it has received some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		12.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_player:12.0.0:::::::*
		12.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation_pro:12.0.0:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

2.8

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

4.95%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

91.3%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

ExploitDB: EDB-42140 · Jun 8, 2017

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0495 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference

View patch

References

exploit-db.com / exploits/42140

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0009.html

PatchVendor Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/98560

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

securitytracker.com / id/1038526