Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | VMware Workstation host privilege escalation vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
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| Name | VMSA-2013-0010 | First vendor Publication | 2013-08-22 |
| Vendor | VMware | Last vendor Modification | 2013-08-22 |
| Severity (Vendor) | N/A | Revision | N/A |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
| Cvss vector : N/A | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall CVSS Score | NA | ||
| Base Score | NA | Environmental Score | NA |
| impact SubScore | NA | Temporal Score | NA |
| Exploitabality Sub Score | NA | ||
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 6.9 | Attack Range | Local |
| Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 3.4 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| a. VMware mount privilege escalation VMware Workstation and Player contain a vulnerability in the handling of the vmware-mount command. A local malicious user may exploit this vulnerability to escalate their privileges to root on the host OS. The issue is present when Workstation or Player are installed on a Debian-based version of Linux. The vulnerability does not allow for privilege escalation from the Guest Operating System to the host or vice-versa. This means that host memory can not be manipulated from the Guest Operating System. Workaround A workaround for the issue is to remove the setuid bit from vmware-mount: # chmod u-s /usr/bin/vmware-mount This workaround is relevant for both Workstation and Player. VMware would like to thank Tavis Ormandy from the Google Security Team for reporting this issue to us. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2013-1662 to this issue. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0010.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-264 | Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Metasploit Database
| id | Description |
|---|---|
| 2013-08-22 | VMWare Setuid vmware-mount Unsafe popen(3) |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-11-26 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing one or more security updates. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2013-0010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2020-05-23 13:17:15 |
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| 2014-11-27 13:28:45 |
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| 2014-01-03 17:19:09 |
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| 2013-08-26 21:24:09 |
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| 2013-08-24 13:21:51 |
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| 2013-08-23 09:18:47 |
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