CVE-2016-5330

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the HGFS (aka Shared Folders) feature in VMware Tools 10.0.5 in VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0, VMware Workstation Pro…

published August 8, 2016

CVSS

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EPSS

18%

Percentile

97.2

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the HGFS (aka Shared Folders) feature in VMware Tools 10.0.5 in VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0, VMware Workstation Pro 12.1.x before 12.1.1, VMware Workstation Player 12.1.x before 12.1.1, and VMware Fusion 8.1.x before 8.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS: Not scored
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.18020 · 97.2th percentile
Published: 2016-08-08T01:00Z

EPSS history

Timeline

08 AUG 01:00Z
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the HGFS (aka Shared Folders) feature in VMware Tools 10.0.5 in VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0, VMware Workstation Pro…
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