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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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.