CVE-2018-6957: VMware Fusion

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation (14.x before 14.1.1, 12.x) and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.1 and 8.x) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability which can be triggered by opening a large number of VNC sessions. Note: In order for exploitation to be possible on Workstation and Fusion, VNC must be manually enabled.

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 Player: from 14.0, before 14.1.1 (fixed in 14.1.1); version 12.0 only; version 12.0.1 only; version 12.1 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.5 only; …
• VMware Workstation Pro: from 14.0, before 14.1.1 (fixed in 14.1.1); version 12.0 only; version 12.1 only; version 12.01 only; version 12.1.1 only; version 12.5 only; …

Published 2018-03-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.