CVE-2011-1787

Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2011-06-06

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-362

Affected products

• Esx (Vmware)
• Esxi (Vmware)
• Fusion (Vmware)
• Player (Vmware)
• Workstation (Vmware)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/44840
• http://secunia.com/advisories/44904
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48098
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025601
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html
• https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677