{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6957 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2018-6957 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2018-6957 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Fusion, published on 15 Mar 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-6957 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-6957 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Fusion, published on 15 Mar 2018. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-6957 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Fusion. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6957/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6957/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-6957","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6957/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-6957","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-vxf5-fpm2-g9fg"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"VMware virtualization software","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers can cause denial of service in VMware Workstation and Fusion by opening many VNC sessions, requiring manual VNC enablement.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"vmware","cpe":[{"product":"fusion","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"workstation_player","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"workstation_pro","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":5.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-772","name":"Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime"}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Denial of service in Fusion","id":"CVE-2018-6957","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:fusion","products":["vmware:fusion"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in vRealize Automation","id":"CVE-2018-6958"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-6954"},"products":["Fusion","Workstation"],"published":"2018-03-15","related":[{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"VMware Multiple Products Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2020-3950","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2020-03-17"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Memory corruption in Fusion Pro / Fusion","id":"CVE-2017-4901","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-06-08"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Use after free in VMware Fusion","id":"CVE-2024-22267","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-14"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Memory corruption in Workstation and Fusion","id":"CVE-2019-5541","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-20"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Code-execution vulnerability","id":"CVE-2024-38811","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-09-03"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in VMware Workstation Pro / Player (Workstation) and VMware Fusion","id":"CVE-2023-20872","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Use after free in Fusion","id":"CVE-2020-3947","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-16"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-16","vendors":["VMware"]},"summary":"Attackers can cause denial of service in VMware Workstation and Fusion by opening many VNC sessions, requiring manual VNC enablement.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-6957/"}