CVE-2012-1518

Severity

83%

Complexity

65%

Confidentiality

165%

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.

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.

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

First reported 12 years ago

2012-04-17 21:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-29 02:29:00

Affected Software

VMWare Workstation 8.0

8.0

VMWare Workstation 8.0.1

8.0.1

VMware Player 4.0

4.0

VMware Player 4.0.1

4.0.1

VMware Player 4.0.2

4.0.2

VMware Fusion 4.0

4.0

VMware Fusion 4.0.1

4.0.1

VMware Fusion 4.0.2

4.0.2

VMware Fusion 4.1

4.1

VMware Fusion 4.1.1

4.1.1

VMWare ESXi 3.5

3.5

VMWare ESXi 3.5 update 1

3.5

VMWare ESXi 4.0

4.0

VMWare ESXi 4.0 update 1

4.0

VMWare ESXi 4.0 update 2

4.0

VMWare ESXi 4.0 update 3

4.0

VMWare ESXi 4.0 update 4

4.0

VMWare ESXi 4.1

4.1

VMWare ESXi 4.1 update 1

4.1

VMWare ESXi 4.1 update 2

4.1

VMWare ESXi 5.0

5.0

VMWare ESX 3.5

3.5

VMWare ESX 3.5 update1

3.5

VMWare ESX 3.5 update2

3.5

VMWare ESX 3.5 update3

3.5

VMWare ESX 4.0

4.0

VMWare ESX 4.1

4.1

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