CVE-2010-1138

medium
Published 2010-04-12 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The virtual networking stack in VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600, VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459 on Windows, VMware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600, VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459 on Windows, VMware ACE 2.6 before 2.6.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, VMware Server 2.x, and VMware Fusion 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 232708 and 2.x before 2.0.7 build 246742 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from memory on the host OS by examining received network packets, related to interaction between the guest OS and the host vmware-vmx process.

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.

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

โœš Propose a mitigation on Community โ†’ 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 vmwareworkstation7.0
vmware vmwareworkstation6.5.0
vmware vmwareworkstation6.5.1
vmware vmwareworkstation6.5.2
vmware vmwareworkstation6.5.3
vmware vmwareplayer3.0
vmware vmwareplayer2.5
vmware vmwareplayer2.5.1
vmware vmwareplayer2.5.2
vmware vmwareplayer2.5.3
vmware vmwareace2.5.0
vmware vmwareace2.5.1
vmware vmwareace2.5.2
vmware vmwareace2.5.3
vmware vmwareace2.6
vmware vmwareserver2.0.0
vmware vmwareserver2.0.1
vmware vmwareserver2.0.2
vmware vmwarefusion2.0
vmware vmwarefusion2.0.1
vmware vmwarefusion2.0.2
vmware vmwarefusion2.0.3
vmware vmwarefusion2.0.4
vmware vmwarefusion2.0.5
vmware vmwarefusion2.0.6
vmware vmwarefusion3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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