CVE-2013-5972

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-11-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3 and VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3 on Linux do not properly handle shared libraries, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

VMware Player: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2
VMware Workstation: 9.0, 9.0.1, 9.0.2

References

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0013.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0013.html

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