PwnFest participants earned hundreds of thousands of dollars for hacking products from Microsoft, Google, Adobe, VMware and Apple. The reward for hacking VMware Workstation Pro 12 on Windows 10 at PwnFest was $150,000. VMware has credited Qinghao Tang and Xinlei Ying from Qihoo 360’s Marvel Team and JungHoon Lee (lokihardt) for finding the flaw. The vulnerability was disclosed recently at PwnFest, a hacking competition that took place in South Korea at the 2016 Power Of Community (POC) security conference. This workaround does not work on Workstation Player. ESXi is not impacted.Īccording to VMware, the vulnerability cannot be exploited against Workstation Pro or Fusion if both the drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste functions are disabled. The issue has been patched with the release of versions 12.5.2 and 8.5.2, respectively. The security hole affects Workstation Player and Pro 12.x, and Fusion (Pro) 8.x. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2016-7461, affects the drag-and-drop function and it can be exploited from the guest to execute arbitrary code on the host operating system running Fusion or Workstation. VMware informed customers on Sunday that it has patched a critical out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability affecting its Workstation and Fusion products.
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