CVE-2018-6982 is an information leak vulnerability affecting VMware ESXi 6.5 and 6.7, as well as VMware Workstation and Fusion products. It stems from uninitialized stack memory usage in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter, potentially allowing a malicious guest VM to leak sensitive information from the host. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires local access and low privileges to exploit, but could lead to a high impact information disclosure. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 14.0.0, < 14.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
15.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:15.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 10.0.0, < 10.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:11.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.