CVE-2013-1406

high

Published 2013-02-11 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.2

Description

The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) implementation in vmci.sys in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and 9.x before 9.0.1 on Windows, VMware Fusion 4.1 before 4.1.4 and 5.0 before 5.0.2, VMware View 4.x before 4.6.2 and 5.x before 5.1.2 on Windows, VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1 does not properly restrict memory allocation by control code, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
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	workstation	`8.0.3`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.4`
vmware	workstation	`9.0`
vmware	fusion	`4.1`
vmware	fusion	`4.1.1`
vmware	fusion	`4.1.2`
vmware	fusion	`4.1.3`
vmware	fusion	`5.0`
vmware	fusion	`5.0.1`
vmware	view	`4.0.0`
vmware	view	`4.5`
vmware	view	`4.6.0`
vmware	view	`4.6.1`
vmware	view	`5.0`
vmware	view	`5.0.0`
vmware	view	`5.0.1`
vmware	view	`5.1.0`
vmware	view	`5.1.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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