CVE-2012-4897
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.9
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in VMware Movie Decoder before 9.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the installer 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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Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | movie_decoder | {"endIncluding":"7.1.2"} | |
| vmware | movie_decoder | 6.5.2 | |
| vmware | movie_decoder | 6.5.3 | |
| vmware | movie_decoder | 6.5.4 | |
| vmware | movie_decoder | 6.5.5 | |
| vmware | movie_decoder | 7.0 | |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0069.html
- http://osvdb.org/85957
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55802
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79046
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2012-10/0069.html
- http://osvdb.org/85957
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55802
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79046
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.