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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2012-1666 EUVD-2012-1676GHSA-w89w-68w2-pjg9

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.…

Published Sep 8, 2012 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.1.2, VMware View before 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.1 before U3 and 5.0 before P03 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse tpfc.dll file in the current working directory.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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