CVE-2012-1515

Severity

83%

Complexity

65%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 8.3. CVSS Attack Vector: adjacent_network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

VMWare ESX

First reported 12 years ago

2012-04-02 10:46:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 22:02:00

Affected Software

VMWare ESXi 3.5

3.5

VMWare ESXi 4.0

4.0

VMWare ESXi 4.1

4.1

VMWare ESX 3.5

3.5

VMWare ESX 4.0

4.0

VMWare ESX 4.1

4.1

References

52820

1026875

TA12-164A

US Government Resource

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0006.html

Vendor Advisory

MS12-042

vmware-esxserver-io-privilege-escalation(74480)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15209

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17110

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