CVE-2011-1787
N/A
Published: June 6, 2011 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM UTC
5 products affected across 1 vendorWorkstationESXiFusion
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
Description
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.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (6)
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362
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