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CVE-2012-3289

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-3289 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting VMware Workstation, Player, ESXi, and ESX versions, allowing a remote attacker to crash a guest operating system. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity, and can be exploited remotely with low complexity to achieve a complete denial of service. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, organizations should still patch affected systems to mitigate this risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:8.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0166 is in the 56th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0011.html
Vendor Advisory