CVE-2015-3650 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Workstation, Player, and Horizon Client on Windows. The vmware-vmx.exe process fails to provide a valid DACL pointer during vprintproxy.exe setup, allowing local host OS users to gain elevated privileges by injecting a thread. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available, the vulnerability received some community discussion and media coverage at the time, though it is not currently on CISA's KEV catalog or Hot List.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:5.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:5.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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