What is CVE-2018-6969?

CVE-2018-6969 is a high-severity vulnerability in VMware Tools, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.0/10. Published 2018-07-13.

How severe is CVE-2018-6969?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.0 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in VMware Tools

CVE-2018-6969

VMware Tools (10.x and prior before 10.3.0) contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in HGFS. Successful exploitation of this issue may lead to information disclosure or may allow attackers to escalate their privileges on the guest VMs. In order to be able to exploit this issue, file sharing must be enabled.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2018-07-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.0 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (32.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-22.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 33rd percentile — 32.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

VMware Tools
VMware Tools — versions 10.x and prior before 10.3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1041291 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2018-0017.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/104737 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-6969?: CVE-2018-6969 is a high-severity vulnerability in VMware Tools, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.0/10. Published 2018-07-13.
How severe is CVE-2018-6969?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.0 out of 10.