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CVE-2010-1142

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% 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

VMware Tools in VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459; VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459; VMware ACE 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459; VMware Server 2.x before 2.0.2 build 203138; VMware Fusion 2.x before 2.0.6 build 246742; VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0; and VMware ESX 2.5.5, 3.0.3, 3.5, and 4.0 does not properly load VMware programs, which might allow Windows guest OS users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse program at an unspecified location on the guest OS disk.

Affected products

• VMware Ace: 2.5.0, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3
• VMware ESX: 2.5.5, 3.0.3, 3.5, 4.0
• VMware ESXi: 3.5, 4.0
• VMware Fusion: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+1)
• VMware Player: 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3
• VMware Server: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
• VMware Workstation: 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3

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/39198
• http://secunia.com/advisories/39206
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
• http://www.acrossecurity.com/aspr/ASPR-2010-04-12-2-PUB.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39394
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023832
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023833
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html

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