Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
CVE-2012-5458
VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows use weak permissions for unspecified process threads, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted application.
EPSS: 0.007 (49.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Windows
- Vmware Player — versions 4.0, 4.0.0.18997, 4.0.1
- Vmware Workstation — versions 8.0, 8.0.0.18997, 8.0.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)