VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-1662

medium
Published 2013-08-24 · 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

vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 8.x and 9.x and VMware Player 4.x and 5.x, on systems based on Debian GNU/Linux, allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a crafted lsb_release binary in a directory in the PATH, related to use of the popen library function.

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-40169 local linux verified
Tavis Ormandy · 2013-08-22

VMware - Setuid VMware-mount Popen lsb_release Privilege Escalation

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-27938 local linux verified
Metasploit · 2013-08-29

VMware - Setuid VMware-mount Unsafe popen(3) (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/local/vmware_mount rank 600
VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3)
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0.0.18997
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0.1
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0.1.27038
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0.2
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0.3
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0.4
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0.5
vmware vmwareworkstation8.0.6
vmware vmwareworkstation9.0
vmware vmwareworkstation9.0.1
vmware vmwareworkstation9.0.2
vmware vmwareplayer4.0
vmware vmwareplayer4.0.0.18997
vmware vmwareplayer4.0.1
vmware vmwareplayer4.0.2
vmware vmwareplayer4.0.3
vmware vmwareplayer4.0.4
vmware vmwareplayer4.0.5
vmware vmwareplayer4.0.6
vmware vmwareplayer5.0
vmware vmwareplayer5.0.1
vmware vmwareplayer5.0.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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