VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7080

high
Published 2016-12-29 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The graphic acceleration functions in VMware Tools 9.x and 10.x before 10.0.9 on OS X allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-7079.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwaretools{"endIncluding":"10.0.8"}
vmware vmwaretools10.0.0
vmware vmwaretools10.0.5
vmware vmwaretools10.0.6
vmware vmwaretools9.0.0
vmware vmwaretools9.0.1
vmware vmwaretools9.0.5
vmware vmwaretools9.0.10
vmware vmwaretools9.0.11
vmware vmwaretools9.0.12
vmware vmwaretools9.0.13
vmware vmwaretools9.0.15
vmware vmwaretools9.0.16
vmware vmwaretools9.0.17
vmware vmwaretools9.4.0
vmware vmwaretools9.4.5
vmware vmwaretools9.4.10
vmware vmwaretools9.4.11
vmware vmwaretools9.4.12
vmware vmwaretools9.4.15
vmware vmwaretools9.10.0
vmware vmwaretools9.10.1
vmware vmwaretools9.10.5

References

CWEs

CWE-476

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

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