CVE-2013-1406

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-02-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) implementation in vmci.sys in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and 9.x before 9.0.1 on Windows, VMware Fusion 4.1 before 4.1.4 and 5.0 before 5.0.2, VMware View 4.x before 4.6.2 and 5.x before 5.1.2 on Windows, VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1 does not properly restrict memory allocation by control code, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

VMware ESX: 4.0, 4.1 (and their updates)
VMware ESXi: 4.0-1, 4.0-2, 4.0-3, 4.0-4, 4.1-1, 4.1-2 (+2); 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1 (and their updates)
VMware Fusion: 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 5.0, 5.0.1 (and their updates)
VMware View: 4.0.0-u2, 5.0.0-u2; 4.0.0, 4.5, 4.6.0, 4.6.1, 5.0, 5.0.0 (+3) (and their updates)
VMware Workstation: 8.0, 8.0.0.18997, 8.0.1, 8.0.1.27038, 8.0.2, 8.0.3 (+2) (and their updates)

References

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