CVE-2012-5458

high
Published 2012-11-14 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
8.3
VIR risk
8.3

Description

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows use weak permissions for unspecified process threads, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted application.

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-2012-0015.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmwareplayer4.0
vmwareplayer4.0.0.18997
vmwareplayer4.0.1
vmwareplayer4.0.2
vmwareplayer4.0.3
vmwareplayer4.0.4
vmwareworkstation8.0
vmwareworkstation8.0.0.18997
vmwareworkstation8.0.1
vmwareworkstation8.0.1.27038
vmwareworkstation8.0.2
vmwareworkstation8.0.3
vmwareworkstation8.0.4

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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