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CVE-2011-1787
published 2011-06-06

CVE-2011-1787: Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware…

PriorityP425medium6.9CVSS 2.0
AVLACMAuNCCICAC
EPSS
0.24%
15.1th percentile
Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.

Affected

27 ranges· showing 25
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianopen-vm-tools< open-vm-tools 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 (bookworm)open-vm-tools 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 (bookworm)
vmwareesx
vmwareesx
vmwareesx
vmwareesx
vmwareesxi
vmwareesxi
vmwareesxi
vmwarefusion
vmwarefusion
vmwarefusion
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareopen-vm-tools>= 0 < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-12:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
vmwareplayer
vmwareplayer
vmwareplayer
vmwareplayer
vmwarevmware_esxi
vmwarevmware_fusion
vmwarevmware_tools
vmwarevmware_workstation
vmwarevsphere
vmwareworkstation

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.06.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
osv6.9MEDIUM
vendor_debian6.9MEDIUM
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