Vulnerability in VMware Esx
CVE-2012-1515
VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 do not properly implement port-based I/O operations, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by overwriting memory locations in a read-only memory block associated with the Virtual DOS Machine.
EPSS: 0.008 (53.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Vmware Esx — versions 3.5, 4.0, 4.1
- Vmware Esxi — versions 3.5, 4.0, 4.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)