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
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.002 (13.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 14th percentile — 13.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000
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
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/44904 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/48098 (vdb-entry)
- www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/44840 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677 (vendor-advisory)