CVE-2011-2217

critical

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

10.0

Description

Certain ActiveX controls in (1) tsgetxu71ex552.dll and (2) tsgetx71ex552.dll in Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory 5.5.2.237, as used in VI Client (aka VMware Infrastructure Client) 2.0.2 before Build 230598 and 2.5 before Build 204931 in VMware Infrastructure 3, do not properly handle attempted initialization within Internet Explorer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted HTML document.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-19030 remote windows verified

Metasploit · 2012-06-10

Tom Sawyer Software GET Extension Factory - Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/browser/tom_sawyer_tsgetx71ex552 rank 300

Tom Sawyer Software GET Extension Factory Remote Code Execution

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
tomsawyer	get_extension_factory	`5.5.2.237`
vmware	virtual_infrastructure_client	`2.0.2`
vmware	virtual_infrastructure_client	`2.5`
vmware	infrastructure	`3`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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