CVE-2010-4297 describes a command injection vulnerability in the VMware Tools update functionality across multiple VMware products, including Workstation, Player, Server, Fusion, ESXi, and ESX. This flaw allows a user on the host operating system to escalate privileges on the guest operating system. With a CVSS score of 7.2, it is considered high severity, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.