6.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-1666

Published: 08/09/2012 Updated: 10/09/2012
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 695
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation prior to 8.0.4, VMware Player prior to 4.0.4, VMware Fusion prior to 4.1.2, VMware View prior to 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.1 before U3 and 5.0 before P03 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse tpfc.dll file in the current working directory.

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vmware workstation 8.0.1

vmware workstation 8.0.0.18997

vmware workstation 8.0

vmware workstation 8.0.2

vmware workstation

vmware workstation 8.0.1.27038

vmware player 4.0

vmware player 4.0.2

vmware player 4.0.0.18997

vmware player

vmware player 4.0.1

vmware fusion

vmware fusion 4.1

vmware fusion 4.0.2

vmware fusion 4.0

vmware fusion 4.0.1

vmware view

vmware view 4.6.0

vmware esx 4.1

vmware esx 5.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/55421/info ThinPrint is prone to a vulnerability that lets attackers execute arbitrary code Exploiting this issue allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the affected application #include <windowsh> int hijack_poc () { WinExec ( "calcexe ...
VMWare Tools is susceptible to binary planting / DLL hijacking ...