CVE-2012-1666

medium

Published 2012-09-08 · 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

7.9

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.1.2, VMware View before 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.1 before U3 and 5.0 before P03 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse tpfc.dll file in the current working 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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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-37780 local windows verified

Moshe Zioni · 2012-09-04

ThinPrint - 'tpfc.dll' Insecure Library Loading Arbitrary Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	workstation	`{"endIncluding":"8.0.3"}`
vmware	workstation	`8.0`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.0.18997`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.1`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.1.27038`
vmware	workstation	`8.0.2`
vmware	player	`{"endIncluding":"4.0.3"}`
vmware	player	`4.0`
vmware	player	`4.0.0.18997`
vmware	player	`4.0.1`
vmware	player	`4.0.2`
vmware	fusion	`{"endIncluding":"4.1.1"}`
vmware	fusion	`4.0`
vmware	fusion	`4.0.1`
vmware	fusion	`4.0.2`
vmware	fusion	`4.1`
vmware	view	`{"endIncluding":"5.0"}`
vmware	view	`4.6.0`

References

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

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