VMware Multiple Products Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
15 Apr. 2012
Summary
VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.2, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.2, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 though 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 use an incorrect ACL for the VMware Tools folder, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via unspecified vectors.
Multiple VMware products are prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability.
Local attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges on Windows-based guest operating systems.
Vendor Status:
VMware had issued an update for this vulnerability