CVE-2012-1518
HIGH · CVSS 8.3EPSS 1.7%EU EUVD
VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.2, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.2, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 use an incorrect ACL for the VMware Tools folder, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via unspecified vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 8.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 1.7% (78th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-1536)
- Published
- April 17, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-1536 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / workstation
- vmware / workstation
References
- http://osvdb.org/81163
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48782
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53006
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026922
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026923
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0007.html(Vendor Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16745
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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