CVE-2012-2450

Severity

90%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

165%

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly register SCSI devices, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly register SCSI devices, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-05-04 16:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-14 02:29:00

Affected Software

VMWare Workstation 8.0

8.0

VMWare Workstation 8.0.1

8.0.1

VMWare Workstation 8.0.2

8.0.2

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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