National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1666
Original release date:09/08/2012
Last revised:09/10/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.1.2, VMware View before 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.1 before U3 and 5.0 before P03 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse tpfc.dll file in the current working directory.
Description
Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html
'CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path'
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esxi41_u3_rel_notes.html#resolvedissuessecurity
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20120904 VMWare Tools susceptible to binary planting by hijack
