CVE-2011-1787

medium

Published 2011-06-06 · 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 mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.

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.

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1`
sid	Fixed	`2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1`
forky	Fixed	`2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	workstation	`7.1.1`
vmware	workstation	`7.1.2`
vmware	workstation	`7.1.3`
vmware	player	`3.1`
vmware	player	`3.1.1`
vmware	player	`3.1.2`
vmware	player	`3.1.3`
vmware	fusion	`3.1`
vmware	fusion	`3.1.1`
vmware	fusion	`3.1.2`
vmware	esx	`3.0.3`
vmware	esx	`3.5`
vmware	esx	`4.0`
vmware	esx	`4.1`
vmware	esxi	`3.5`
vmware	esxi	`4.0`
vmware	esxi	`4.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-362

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

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