Multiple VMware Products CVE-2013-1406 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

BID:57867

Info

Multiple VMware Products CVE-2013-1406 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 57867
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2013-1406
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Feb 07 2013 12:00AM
Updated: Feb 04 2014 01:48AM
Credit: Derek Soeder of Cylance, Inc. and Kostya Kortchinsky of Microsoft
Vulnerable: VMWare Workstation 8.0.2
VMWare Workstation 8.0.1
VMWare View 4.6.1
VMWare View 4.6
VMWare View 4.0
VMWare Fusion 4.1.2
VMWare Fusion 4.1.1
VMWare ESXi 5.0
VMWare ESXi 4.1
VMWare ESXi 4.0
VMWare ESX 4.1
VMWare ESX 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Multiple VMware Products CVE-2013-1406 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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

A local attacker can exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges on the target host operating system or guest operating system.

The following products are vulnerable:

VMware Workstation versions 8.x prior to 8.0.5 and 9.x prior to 9.0.1 running on Windows
VMware Fusion versions 4.x prior to 4.1.4 and 5.x prior to 5.0.2 running on Mac OS X
VMware View versions 4.x prior to 4.6.2 and 5.x prior to 5.1.2
VMware ESXi versions 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1
VMware ESX versions 4.0 and 4.1

Exploit / POC

Multiple VMware Products CVE-2013-1406 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

An attacker requires local interactive access to exploit this issue.

Core Security Technologies has developed a working commercial exploit for its CORE IMPACT product. This exploit is not otherwise publicly available or known to be circulating in the wild.

Solution / Fix

Multiple VMware Products CVE-2013-1406 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.

References

Multiple VMware Products CVE-2013-1406 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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