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VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Windows)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Privilege escalation

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

4.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The host is installed with VMWare product(s) that are vulnerable to local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

An input validation error is present in the Windows-based VMware HGFS.sys driver. Exploitation of this flaw might result in arbitrary code execution on the guest system by an unprivileged guest user. The HGFS.sys driver is present in the guest operating system if the VMware Tools package is loaded on Windows based Guest OS.

Affected Software

Affected Software

VMware ACE 1.x - 1.0.5 build 79846 on Windows VMware Player 1.x - before 1.0.6 build 80404 on Windows VMware Server 1.x - before 1.0.5 build 80187 on Windows VMware Workstation 5.x - before 5.5.6 build 80404 on Windows

Solution

Solution

Upgrade VMware Product(s) to below version, VMware ACE 1.0.5 build 79846 or later VMware Player 1.0.6 build 80404 or later VMware Server 1.0.5 build 80187 or later VMware Workstation 5.5.6 build 80404 or later.

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