VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1139

high
Published 2010-04-12 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

Format string vulnerability in vmrun in VMware VIX API 1.6.x, VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459, VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, and VMware Server 2.x on Linux, and VMware Fusion 2.x before 2.0.7 build 246742, allows local users to gain privileges via format string specifiers in process metadata.

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 — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation6.5.0
vmware vmwareworkstation6.5.1
vmware vmwareworkstation6.5.2
vmware vmwareworkstation6.5.3
vmware vmwareplayer2.5
vmware vmwareplayer2.5.1
vmware vmwareplayer2.5.2
vmware vmwareplayer2.5.3
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 vmwarevix_api1.6.0
vmware vmwarevix_api1.6.1

References

CWEs

CWE-134

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

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