CVE-2013-5972

VMware Workstation 9.x and Player 5.x - Privilege Escalation via Shared Library Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3 and VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3 on Linux do not properly handle shared libraries, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0013.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 14.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (6)
vmware/player 5.0
vmware/player 5.0.1
vmware/player 5.0.2
vmware/workstation 9.0
vmware/workstation 9.0.1
vmware/workstation 9.0.2
Published Nov 18, 2013
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026