VMware Products Local Privilege Escalation (VMSA-2012-0007)

high Nessus Plugin ID 58794

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Synopsis

The remote host has a virtualization application affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The VMware Workstation installation detected on the remote host is 8.x earlier than 8.0.2 and thus is potentially affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability because the access control list of the VMware Tools folder is incorrectly set.

By exploiting this issue, a local attacker could elevate his privileges on Windows-based Guest Operating Systems.

Solution

Upgrade to VMware Workstation 8.0.2 or later.

In addition to patching, VMware Tools must be updated on all non- Windows guest VMs in order to completely mitigate the vulnerability.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 58794

File Name: vmware_workstation_priv_esc_vmsa_2012_0007.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 4/19/2012

Updated: 3/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-1518

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:vmware:workstation

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, Host/VMware Workstation/Version, VMware/Workstation/Path

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2012

Exploitable With

CANVAS (White_Phosphorus)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1518

BID: 53006

VMSA: 2012-0007

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