CVE-2012-2752

high
Published 2012-06-01 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.2

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware vMA 4.x and 5.x before 5.0.0.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory.

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-2012-0010.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwarevma4.0
vmware vmwarevma4.1
vmware vmwarevma5.0.0.1

References

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