CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7085

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-12-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-426

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.0 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.0 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Affected configurations

• vmware workstation player 12.0.0 • vmware workstation player 12.0.1 • vmware workstation player 12.1.0 • vmware workstation player 12.1.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.0.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.0.1 • vmware workstation pro 12.1.0 • vmware workstation pro 12.1.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References