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CVE-2010-1140

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-04-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The USB service in VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600 and VMware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600 on Windows might allow host OS users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse program at an unspecified location on the host OS disk.

Affected products

• VMware Player: 3.0
• VMware Workstation: 7.0

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html
• http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39206
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1023834
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39397
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html
• http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39206

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