National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4897
Original release date:10/05/2012
Last revised:10/08/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in VMware Movie Decoder before 9.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the installer 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:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html
Type: Advisory