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CVE-2012-2450

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
04/05/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly register SCSI devices, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:fusion:4.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:3.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:3.5:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.0:1:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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