CVE-2016-7085: VMware Workstation Player

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.0 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.0 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Affected products

• VMware Workstation Player: version 12.0.0 only; version 12.0.1 only; version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only
• VMware Workstation Pro: version 12.0.0 only; version 12.0.1 only; version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only

Published 2016-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.