CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-5459

7.9 HIGH Published 2012-11-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-11-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.9 HIGH — AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in a "system folder."

Affected configurations

• vmware player 4.0 • vmware player 4.0.0.18997 • vmware player 4.0.1 • vmware player 4.0.2 • vmware player 4.0.3 • vmware player 4.0.4 • 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 workstation 8.0.3 • vmware workstation 8.0.4

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