CVE-2014-3793

VMware Tools in VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.2, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.2, VMware Fusion 6.x before 6.0.3, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5, when a Windows 8.1 guest OS is used, allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (kernel NULL pointer dereference and guest OS crash) via unspecified vectors.

Published: 2014-05-31 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-3793 is rated Moderate Risk (46.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.15%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-3793

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.17% 1.15% +0.98%
2 2025-06-15 0.12% 0.17% +0.05%
3 2025-03-30 — 0.12% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-3793

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:A)
Requires access to an adjacent network segment.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 6.5 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-3793

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-3793

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-3793 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (vmware-view-client), 15 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 12, not-affected 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3793

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2014-3793

Comment: Per http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html "CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference"

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-3793

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
vmware fusion 6.0 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion 6.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware fusion 6.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player 6.0 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player 6.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation 10.0 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation 10.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi 5.0 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi 5.0 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.0:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi 5.0 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.0:2:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi 5.1 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi 5.1 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.1:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi 5.5 cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-3793

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