CVE-2014-3793: VMware ESXi

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Tools in VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.2, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.2, VMware Fusion 6.x before 6.0.3, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5, when a Windows 8.1 guest OS is used, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (kernel NULL pointer dereference and guest OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware ESXi: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.5 only
• VMware Fusion: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only
• VMware Player: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only
• VMware Workstation: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only

Published 2014-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.