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CVE-2012-5458

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
14/11/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows use weak permissions for unspecified process threads, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted application.

Impact

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

Base Score: 8.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
8.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0.0.18997:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.0.18997:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.1.27038:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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


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