CVE-2012-1518

high
Published 2012-04-17 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
8.3
VIR risk
8.3

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0007.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmwareworkstation8.0
vmwareworkstation8.0.1
vmwareplayer4.0
vmwareplayer4.0.1
vmwareplayer4.0.2
vmwarefusion4.0
vmwarefusion4.0.1
vmwarefusion4.0.2
vmwarefusion4.1
vmwarefusion4.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.