Vulnerability in VMware Esx
CVE-2012-1518
VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.2, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.2, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 use an incorrect ACL for the VMware Tools folder, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via unspecified vectors.
EPSS: 0.017 (75.1th 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
- Vmware Fusion — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2
- Vmware Player — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2
- Vmware Workstation — versions 8.0, 8.0.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- 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)