Detections
Analytics
CVE-2012-1518high
Description
VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.2, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.2, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 use an incorrect ACL for the VMware Tools folder, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via unspecified vectors.
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/48782
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16745
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026922
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026923
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0007.html