CVE-2012-1518

HighCVSS 8.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.2, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.2, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 use an incorrect ACL for the VMware Tools folder, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via unspecified vectors.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 8.3/10AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Apr 17, 2012
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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