CVE-2010-1141

high
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
8.5

Description

VMware Tools in VMware Workstation 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459; VMware Player 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459; VMware ACE 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459; VMware Server 2.x before 2.0.2 build 203138; VMware Fusion 2.x before 2.0.6 build 246742; VMware ESXi 3.5 and 4.0; and VMware ESX 2.5.5, 3.0.3, 3.5, and 4.0 does not properly access libraries, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a Windows guest OS user into clicking on a file that is stored on a network share.

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 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 vmwareace2.5.0
vmware vmwareace2.5.1
vmware vmwareace2.5.2
vmware vmwareace2.5.3
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 vmwarefusion3.0
vmware vmwareesxi3.5
vmware vmwareesxi4.0
vmware vmwareesx2.5.5
vmware vmwareesx3.0.3
vmware vmwareesx3.5
vmware vmwareesx4.0

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.