VMware Hosted Products VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:39394

CVE-2010-1142 |

Info

VMware Hosted Products VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 39394
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2010-1142
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Apr 09 2010 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 01 2012 07:10PM
Credit: Mitja Kolsek of ACROS Security
Vulnerable: VMWare Workstation 6.5.3
VMWare Workstation 6.5.2
VMWare Workstation 6.5.1
VMWare Workstation 6.5 build 118166
VMWare VIX API 1.6
VMWare Server 2.0.2 Build 203138
VMWare Server 2.0.2
VMWare Server 2.0.1 build 156745
VMWare Server 2.0.1
VMWare Server 2.0
VMWare Player 2.5.3
VMWare Player 2.5.2
VMWare Player 2.5.1
VMWare Player 2.5 build 118166
VMWare Fusion 2.0.6 Build 196839
VMWare Fusion 2.0.6
VMWare Fusion 2.0.5
VMWare Fusion 2.0.4
VMWare Fusion 2.0.3
VMWare Fusion 2.0.2 build 147997
VMWare Fusion 3.0
VMWare Fusion 2
VMWare ESXi Server 4.0
VMWare ESXi Server 3.5
VMWare ESX Server 3.0.3
VMWare ESX Server 2.5.5
VMWare ESX Server 4.0
VMWare ESX Server 3.5
VMWare ACE 2.5.3 Build 185404
VMWare ACE 2.5.2 build 156735
VMWare ACE 2.5.2
VMWare ACE 2.5.1
VMWare ACE 2.5 build 118166
VMWare ACE 2.6
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

VMware Hosted Products VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Multiple VMware products are prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.

Local attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges; this may aid in other attacks. This issue only affects guest systems running on Windows.

NOTE: This issue was previously covered in BID 39345 (VMware Hosted Products VMSA-2010-0007 Multiple Remote and Local Vulnerabilities), but has been given its own record to better document it.

Exploit / POC

VMware Hosted Products VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An attacker requires local interactive access to a guest operating system to exploit this issue.

Solution / Fix

VMware Hosted Products VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory and patches. Please see the references for more information.

References

VMware Hosted Products VMware Tools Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:
© CVE.report 2026 |

Use of this information constitutes acceptance for use in an AS IS condition. There are NO warranties, implied or otherwise, with regard to this information or its use. Any use of this information is at the user's risk. It is the responsibility of user to evaluate the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, opinion, advice or other content. EACH USER WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY consequences of his or her direct or indirect use of this web site. ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED. This site will NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT or any other kind of loss.

CVE, CWE, and OVAL are registred trademarks of The MITRE Corporation and the authoritative source of CVE content is MITRE's CVE web site. This site includes MITRE data granted under the following license.

Free CVE JSON API cve.report/api

CVE.report and Source URL Uptime Status status.cve.report