vulnerability

VMware Workstation: Vulnerability (VMSA-2023-0022) (CVE-2023-34044)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 20, 2023
Added
Apr 25, 2024
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

Description

VMware Workstation( 17.x prior to 17.5) and Fusion(13.x prior to 13.5) contain an out-of-bounds
read vulnerability that exists in the functionality for sharing host
Bluetooth devices with the virtual machine. A malicious actor with local administrative privileges on a virtual
machine may be able to read privileged information contained in
hypervisor memory from a virtual machine.

Solution

vmware-workstation-upgrade-17_5_0
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