CVE-2001-1059 describes a vulnerability in VMWare Workstation where a temporary log file, vmware-log.USERNAME, is created with insecure permissions. This allows local users to read or modify sensitive license information. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 3.6, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with potential impacts on confidentiality and integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion with 10 mentions.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.