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CVE-2012-2450

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-05-04 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly register SCSI devices, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

Affected products

• VMware ESX: 3.5-update1, 3.5-update2, 3.5-update3; 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 (and their updates)
• VMware ESXi: 3.5-1, 4.0-1, 4.0-2, 4.0-3, 4.0-4, 4.1-1 (+1); 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 (and their updates)
• VMware Fusion: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.1, 4.1.1 (and their updates)
• VMware Player: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2 (and their updates)
• VMware Workstation: 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.0.2 (and their updates)

References

• http://osvdb.org/81695
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49032
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027019
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75377
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16852
• http://osvdb.org/81695
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49032
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027019
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html

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