CVE-2016-7461: VMware Fusion

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The drag-and-drop (aka DnD) function in VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.2 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.2 and VMware Fusion and Fusion Pro 8.x before 8.5.2 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access on the host OS) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware Fusion: version 8.0.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.0.2 only; version 8.1.0 only; version 8.1.1 only; version 8.5.0 only; …
• VMware Fusion Pro: version 8.0.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.0.2 only; version 8.1.0 only; version 8.1.1 only; version 8.5.0 only; …
• VMware Workstation Player: version 12.0.0 only; version 12.0.1 only; version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.5.0 only; version 12.5.1 only
• VMware Workstation Pro: version 12.0.0 only; version 12.0.1 only; version 12.1.0 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.5.0 only; version 12.5.1 only

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