CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1515
8.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-04-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.3 HIGH — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 do not properly implement port-based I/O operations, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by overwriting memory locations in a read-only memory block associated with the Virtual DOS Machine.
Affected configurations
• vmware esxi 3.5
• vmware esxi 4.0
• vmware esxi 4.1
• vmware esx 3.5
• vmware esx 4.0
• vmware esx 4.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52820 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026875 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0006.html Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-042 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74480 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15209 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17110 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52820 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026875 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-164A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0006.html Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-042 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74480 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15209 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17110 oval.cisecurity.org