4.4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
26.7%
HGFS.sys in the VMware Tools package in VMware Workstation 5.x before 5.5.6
build 80404, VMware Player before 1.0.6 build 80404, VMware ACE before
1.0.5 build 79846, VMware Server before 1.0.5 build 80187, and VMware ESX
2.5.4 through 3.0.2 does not properly validate arguments in user-mode
METHOD_NEITHER IOCTLs to the \.\hgfs device, which allows guest OS users
to modify arbitrary memory locations in guest kernel memory and gain
privileges.