CVE-2012-1666

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-09-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.1.2, VMware View before 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.1 before U3 and 5.0 before P03 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse tpfc.dll file in the current working directory.

Affected products

VMware ESX: 4.1, 5.0
VMware Fusion: through 4.1.1; 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1
VMware Player: through 4.0.3; 4.0, 4.0.0.18997, 4.0.1, 4.0.2
VMware View: through 5.0; 4.6.0
VMware Workstation: through 8.0.3; 8.0, 8.0.0.18997, 8.0.1, 8.0.1.27038, 8.0.2

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-09/0013.html
https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esxi41_u3_rel_notes.html#resolvedissuessecurity
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-09/0013.html
https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esxi41_u3_rel_notes.html#resolvedissuessecurity

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