CVE-2018-6983: VMware Fusion

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation (15.x before 15.0.2 and 14.x before 14.1.5) and Fusion (11.x before 11.0.2 and 10.x before 10.1.5) contain an integer overflow vulnerability in the virtual network devices. This issue may allow a guest to execute code on the host.

Affected products

• VMware Fusion: from 10.0.0, before 10.1.5 (fixed in 10.1.5); from 11.0.0, before 11.0.2 (fixed in 11.0.2)
• VMware Workstation: from 14.0.0, before 14.1.5 (fixed in 14.1.5); from 15.0.0, before 15.0.2 (fixed in 15.0.2)

Published 2018-11-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.