VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7086

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 installer in VMware Workstation Pro 12.x before 12.5.0 and VMware Workstation Player 12.x before 12.5.0 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse setup64.exe file in the installation directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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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.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.0.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.0.1
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.1.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_player12.1.1
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.0.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.0.1
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.1.0
vmware vmwareworkstation_pro12.1.1

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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