CVE-2013-1662

medium
Published 2013-08-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.9
VIR risk
6.9

Description

vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsb_release binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function.

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-2013-0010.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmwareworkstation8.0
vmwareworkstation8.0.0.18997
vmwareworkstation8.0.1
vmwareworkstation8.0.1.27038
vmwareworkstation8.0.2
vmwareworkstation8.0.3
vmwareworkstation8.0.4
vmwareworkstation8.0.5
vmwareworkstation8.0.6
vmwareworkstation9.0
vmwareworkstation9.0.1
vmwareworkstation9.0.2
vmwareplayer4.0
vmwareplayer4.0.0.18997
vmwareplayer4.0.1
vmwareplayer4.0.2
vmwareplayer4.0.3
vmwareplayer4.0.4
vmwareplayer4.0.5
vmwareplayer4.0.6
vmwareplayer5.0
vmwareplayer5.0.1
vmwareplayer5.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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