CVE-2016-7080 is a privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability affecting VMware Tools 9.x and 10.x before 10.0.9 on OS X, specifically within its graphic acceleration functions. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating that a local attacker with low privileges can exploit it with low complexity to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 10.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:10.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:10.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:10.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:tools:9.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.