Privilege Escalation via Race Condition in VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS)

Privilege Escalation via Race Condition in VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS)

CVE-2011-1787 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.

Learn more about our Cis Benchmark Audit For Vmware.