CVE-2015-5191 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Tools prior to version 10.0.9, stemming from file system race conditions in libDeployPkg due to hard-coded paths in /tmp. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.7) requires low privileges and high attack complexity, but successful exploitation could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 10.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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