CVE-2011-1787

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

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.

Affected products

VMware ESX: 3.0.3, 3.5, 4.0, 4.1
VMware ESXi: 3.5, 4.0, 4.1
VMware Fusion: 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2
VMware Player: 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3
VMware Workstation: 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 7.1.3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/44840
http://secunia.com/advisories/44904
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48098
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025601
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677
http://secunia.com/advisories/44840
http://secunia.com/advisories/44904
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48098
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025601
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677

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