CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1666

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2012-09-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-09-08
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

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.1.2, VMware View before 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.1 before U3 and 5.0 before P03 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse tpfc.dll file in the current working directory.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation (<= 8.0.3) • vmware workstation 8.0 • vmware workstation 8.0.0.18997 • vmware workstation 8.0.1 • vmware workstation 8.0.1.27038 • vmware workstation 8.0.2 • vmware player (<= 4.0.3) • vmware player 4.0 • vmware player 4.0.0.18997 • vmware player 4.0.1 • vmware player 4.0.2 • vmware fusion (<= 4.1.1) • vmware fusion 4.0 • vmware fusion 4.0.1 • vmware fusion 4.0.2 • vmware fusion 4.1 • vmware view (<= 5.0) • vmware view 4.6.0 • vmware esx 4.1 • vmware esx 5.0

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