CVE-2012-1666
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-09-08 10:00
Modified
2024-09-17 01:56
Severity ?
Summary
Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.1.2, VMware View before 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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-09/0013.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esxi41_u3_rel_notes.html#resolvedissuessecurity
Impacted products
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