Vulnerability in VMware Open-Vm-Tools
CVE-2011-1681
vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (35.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 36th percentile — 35.8% 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
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699 (vdb-entry)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5 (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/44904 (third-party-advisory)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7 (mailing-list)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2 (mailing-list)