VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-5330

high
Published 2016-08-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the HGFS (aka Shared Folders) feature in VMware Tools 10.0.5 in VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0, VMware Workstation Pro 12.1.x before 12.1.1, VMware Workstation Player 12.1.x before 12.1.1, and VMware Fusion 8.1.x before 8.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/misc/vmhgfs_webdav_dll_sideload rank 300
DLL Side Loading Vulnerability in VMware Host Guest Client Redirector
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macos-not-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation_player{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endExcluding":"12.1.1"}12.1.1
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro{"startIncluding":"12.1.0","endExcluding":"12.1.1"}12.1.1
vmware vmwarefusion{"startIncluding":"8.1","endExcluding":"8.1.1"}8.1.1
vmware vmwaretools{"startIncluding":"9.0.0","endIncluding":"10.3.22"}

References

CWEs

CWE-426

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

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