CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-5972
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-11-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3 and VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3 on Linux do not properly handle shared libraries, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• vmware workstation 9.0
• vmware workstation 9.0.1
• vmware workstation 9.0.2
• vmware player 5.0
• vmware player 5.0.1
• vmware player 5.0.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0013.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0013.html Patch, Vendor Advisory