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CVE-2016-7080

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7080 is a privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability affecting VMware Tools 9.x and 10.x before 10.0.9 on OS X, specifically within its graphic acceleration functions. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating that a local attacker with low privileges can exploit it with low complexity to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 10.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:10.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:10.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:10.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 68th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

securityfocus.com / bid/92938
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1036804
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0014.html
Vendor Advisory