VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2146

low
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
2.1

Description

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 determine the existence of host OS files and directories via unspecified vectors.

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
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed 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
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation7.1.1
vmware vmwareworkstation7.1.2
vmware vmwareworkstation7.1.3
vmware vmwareplayer3.1
vmware vmwareplayer3.1.1
vmware vmwareplayer3.1.2
vmware vmwareplayer3.1.3
vmware vmwarefusion3.1
vmware vmwarefusion3.1.1
vmware vmwarefusion3.1.2
vmware vmwareesx3.0.3
vmware vmwareesx3.5
vmware vmwareesx4.0
vmware vmwareesx4.1
vmware vmwareesxi3.5
vmware vmwareesxi4.0
vmware vmwareesxi4.1

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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