CVE-2010-3277
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
2.1
Description
The installer in VMware Workstation 7.x before 7.1.2 build 301548 and VMware Player 3.x before 3.1.2 build 301548 renders an index.htm file if present in the installation directory, which might allow local users to trigger unintended interpretation of web script or HTML by creating this file.
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.
✚ 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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | workstation | 7.0 | |
| vmware | workstation | 7.0.1 | |
| vmware | workstation | 7.1 | |
| vmware | workstation | 7.1.1 | |
| vmware | player | 3.0 | |
| vmware | player | 3.0.1 | |
| vmware | player | 3.1 | |
| vmware | player | 3.1.1 | |
References
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41574
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024481
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2491
- http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000105.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41574
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024481
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0014.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2491
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.