CVE-2013-1662

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-08-24 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsb_release binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function.

Affected products

VMware Player: 4.0, 4.0.0.18997, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4 (+5)
VMware Workstation: 8.0, 8.0.0.18997, 8.0.1, 8.0.1.27038, 8.0.2, 8.0.3 (+6)

References

http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.html
http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2013/08/security-debianisms.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.html

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