CVE-2010-4295

medium

Published 2010-12-06 · 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

6.9

Description

Race condition in the mounting process in vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 7.x before 7.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Server 2.0.2 on Linux, and VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 332101 allows host OS users to gain privileges via vectors involving temporary files.

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 kernel Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

macOS Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	workstation	`7.0`
vmware	workstation	`7.0.1`
vmware	workstation	`7.1`
vmware	workstation	`7.1.1`
vmware	workstation	`7.1.2`
vmware	player	`3.1`
vmware	player	`3.1.1`
vmware	player	`3.1.2`
vmware	server	`2.0.2`
vmware	fusion	`3.1`
vmware	fusion	`3.1.1`
vmware	fusion	`3.1.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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