CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-5459

Published: Nov 14, 2012 | Modified: Aug 29, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.9 HIGH
AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in a system folder.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Player Vmware 4.0 (including) 4.0 (including)
Player Vmware 4.0.0.18997 (including) 4.0.0.18997 (including)
Player Vmware 4.0.1 (including) 4.0.1 (including)
Player Vmware 4.0.2 (including) 4.0.2 (including)
Player Vmware 4.0.3 (including) 4.0.3 (including)
Player Vmware 4.0.4 (including) 4.0.4 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0 (including) 8.0 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.0.18997 (including) 8.0.0.18997 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.1 (including) 8.0.1 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.1.27038 (including) 8.0.1.27038 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.2 (including) 8.0.2 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.3 (including) 8.0.3 (including)
Workstation Vmware 8.0.4 (including) 8.0.4 (including)

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