CVE-2012-1666

medium

Published 2012-09-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

6.9

VIR risk

6.9

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	workstation	`{"endIncluding":"8.0.3"}`
vmware	workstation	`8.0`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.0.18997`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.1`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.1.27038`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.2`
vmware	player	`{"endIncluding":"4.0.3"}`
vmware	player	`4.0`
vmware	player	`4.0.0.18997`
vmware	player	`4.0.1`
vmware	player	`4.0.2`
vmware	fusion	`{"endIncluding":"4.1.1"}`
vmware	fusion	`4.0`
vmware	fusion	`4.0.1`
vmware	fusion	`4.0.2`
vmware	fusion	`4.1`
vmware	view	`{"endIncluding":"5.0"}`
vmware	view	`4.6.0`

References

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