Vulnerability in VMware Esx
CVE-2011-1787
Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
EPSS: 0.002 (15.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Vmware Esx — versions 3.0.3, 3.5, 4.0
- Vmware Esxi — versions 3.5, 4.0, 4.1
- Vmware Fusion — versions 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2
- Vmware Player — versions 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2
- Vmware Workstation — versions 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)