CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-1056
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-02-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
VMware Workstation 5.5.3 build 34685 does not provide per-user restrictions on certain privileged actions, which allows local users to perform restricted operations such as changing system time, accessing hardware components, and stopping the "VMware tools service" service. NOTE: exploitation is simplified via (1) weak file permissions (Users = Read & Execute) for %PROGRAMFILES%\VMware; and weak registry key permissions (access by Users) for (2) vmmouse, (3) vmscsi, (4) VMTools, (5) vmx_svga, and (6) vmxnet in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\; which allows local users to perform various privileged actions outside of the guest OS by executing certain files under %PROGRAMFILES%\VMware\VMware Tools, as demonstrated by (a) VMControlPanel.cpl and (b) vmwareservice.exe.
Affected configurations
• vmware workstation 5.5.3 build 34685
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://osvdb.org/45244 osvdb.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2281 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460664/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461807/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://osvdb.org/45244 osvdb.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2281 securityreason.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460664/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461807/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com