VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-6972

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.96%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.96%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

VMware ESXi (6.7 before ESXi670-201806401-BG, 6.5 before ESXi650-201806401-BG, 6.0 before ESXi600-201806401-BG and 5.5 before ESXi550-201806401-BG), Workstation (14.x before 14.1.2), and Fusion (10.x before 10.1.2) contain a denial-of-service vulnerability due to NULL pointer dereference issue in RPC handler. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow attackers with normal user privileges to crash their VMs.

CVSS 3.1: 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS: 2.96% probability · 87th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-476
Affected: vmware/workstation · vmware/fusion · vmware/esxi
Source: security@vmware.com

EPSS trend

EPSS 3.0% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041356Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041357Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0018.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.