CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-3650

7.2 HIGH Published 2015-07-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-07-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
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-284

Description

vmware-vmx.exe in VMware Workstation 7.x through 10.x before 10.0.7 and 11.x before 11.1.1, VMware Player 5.x and 6.x before 6.0.7 and 7.x before 7.1.1, and VMware Horizon Client 5.x local-mode before 5.4.2 on Windows does not provide a valid DACL pointer during the setup of the vprintproxy.exe process, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges by injecting a thread.

Affected configurations

• vmware player 5.0 • vmware player 5.0.1 • vmware player 5.0.2 • vmware player 5.0.3 • vmware player 5.0.4 • vmware player 6.0 • vmware player 6.0.1 • vmware player 6.0.2 • vmware player 6.0.3 • vmware player 6.0.4 • vmware player 6.0.5 • vmware player 6.0.6 • vmware player 7.0 • vmware player 7.1 • vmware workstation 10.0 • vmware workstation 10.0.1 • vmware workstation 10.0.2 • vmware workstation 10.0.3 • vmware workstation 10.0.4 • vmware workstation 10.0.5 • vmware workstation 10.0.6 • vmware workstation 11.0 • vmware workstation 11.1 • vmware horizon view client 5.4 • vmware horizon view client 5.4.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control weakness

References