CVE-2012-4897

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path'

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in VMware Movie Decoder before 9.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the installer directory.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html 'CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path'

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

VMWare Movie Decoder

First reported 12 years ago

2012-10-05 17:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:32:00

Affected Software

VMWare Movie Decoder 6.5.2

6.5.2

VMWare Movie Decoder 6.5.3

6.5.3

VMWare Movie Decoder 6.5.4

6.5.4

VMWare Movie Decoder 6.5.5

6.5.5

VMWare Movie Decoder 7.0

7.0

References

20121010 VMSA-2012-0014 VMware vCenter Operations, CapacityIQ, and Movie Decoder security updates

85957

55802

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html

Vendor Advisory

vmware-movie-code-execution(79046)

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