CVE-2015-1043

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Published 2015-01-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

3.3

Description

The Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.5, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.5, and VMware Fusion 6.x before 6.0.5 and 7.x before 7.0.1 allows guest OS users to cause a guest OS denial of service 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.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	fusion	`6.0`
vmware	fusion	`6.0.1`
vmware	fusion	`6.0.2`
vmware	fusion	`6.0.3`
vmware	fusion	`6.0.4`
vmware	fusion	`7.0`
vmware	workstation	`10.0`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.1`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.2`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.3`
vmware	workstation	`10.0.4`
vmware	player	`6.0`
vmware	player	`6.0.1`
vmware	player	`6.0.2`
vmware	player	`6.0.3`
vmware	player	`6.0.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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