CVE-2017-4945: VMware Fusion

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation (14.x and 12.x) and Fusion (10.x and 8.x) contain a guest access control vulnerability. This issue may allow program execution via Unity on locked Windows VMs. VMware Tools must be updated to 10.2.0 for each VM to resolve CVE-2017-4945. VMware Tools 10.2.0 is consumed by Workstation 14.1.0 and Fusion 10.1.0 by default.

Affected products

• VMware Fusion: version 8.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.0.2 only; version 8.1 only; version 8.1.1 only; version 8.5 only; …
• VMware Workstation: version 12.0.0 only; version 12.0.1 only; version 12.1 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.5 only; version 12.5.0 only; …

Published 2018-01-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.