CVE-2015-3650

high

Published 2015-07-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

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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

vmware-vmx.exe in VMware Workstation 7.x through 10.x before 10.0.7 and 11.x before 11.1.1, VMware Player 5.x and 6.x before 6.0.7 and 7.x before 7.1.1, and VMware Horizon Client 5.x local-mode before 5.4.2 on Windows does not provide a valid DACL pointer during the setup of the vprintproxy.exe process, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges by injecting a thread.

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	player	`5.0`
vmware	player	`5.0.1`
vmware	player	`5.0.2`
vmware	player	`5.0.3`
vmware	player	`5.0.4`
vmware	player	`6.0`
vmware	player	`6.0.1`
vmware	player	`6.0.2`
vmware	player	`6.0.3`
vmware	player	`6.0.4`
vmware	player	`6.0.5`
vmware	player	`6.0.6`
vmware	player	`7.0`
vmware	player	`7.1`
vmware	workstation	`10.0`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.1`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.2`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.3`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.4`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.5`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.6`
vmware	workstation	`11.0`
vmware	workstation	`11.1`
vmware	horizon_view_client	`5.4`
vmware	horizon_view_client	`5.4.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-284

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

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