CVE-2011-1126 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting VMware vmrun, specifically in VIX API 1.x before 1.10.3 and VMware Workstation 6.5.x and 7.x before 7.1.4 on Linux. An attacker could exploit this by introducing a Trojan horse shared library in an unspecified directory. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity due to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts, with an attack complexity of medium. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vix_api:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vix_api:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vix_api:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vix_api:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vix_api:1.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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