CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-1662
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-08-24
- 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-264
Description
vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsb_release binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function.
Affected configurations
• 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
• vmware workstation 8.0.5
• vmware workstation 8.0.6
• vmware workstation 9.0
• vmware workstation 9.0.1
• vmware workstation 9.0.2
• 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 player 4.0.5
• vmware player 4.0.6
• vmware player 5.0
• vmware player 5.0.1
• vmware player 5.0.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html blog.cmpxchg8b.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.html Vendor Advisory
- http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html blog.cmpxchg8b.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.html Vendor Advisory