CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1787

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2011-06-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-06-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

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 configurations

• vmware workstation 7.1.1 • vmware workstation 7.1.2 • vmware workstation 7.1.3 • vmware player 3.1 • vmware player 3.1.1 • vmware player 3.1.2 • vmware player 3.1.3 • vmware fusion 3.1 • vmware fusion 3.1.1 • vmware fusion 3.1.2 • vmware esx 3.0.3 • vmware esx 3.5 • vmware esx 4.0 • vmware esx 4.1 • vmware esxi 3.5 • vmware esxi 4.0 • vmware esxi 4.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References