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CVE-2010-1141

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1141 describes a critical vulnerability in VMware Tools across multiple VMware products, including Workstation, Player, ACE, Server, Fusion, ESXi, and ESX. This flaw allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a Windows guest OS by tricking a user into clicking a malicious file on a network share. With a CVSS score of 8.5, this vulnerability is severe, requiring user interaction (AC:M) but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:C/I:C/A:C) if successfully exploited over a network (AV:N). Despite its high severity and FAUCET Risk Score of 75/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

8.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0380 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 1,162 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html
archives.neohapsis.com / archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html
lists.vmware.com / pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/39198
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/39206
Vendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7020
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html
PatchVendor Advisory