Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | VMware ESXi, Workstation, Player, and Fusion updates address important guest privilege escalation vulnerability |
| Informations | |||
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| Name | VMSA-2016-0001 | First vendor Publication | 2016-01-07 |
| Vendor | VMware | Last vendor Modification | 2016-01-07 |
| 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:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
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| Cvss Base Score | 6.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 8 | Authentication | Requires single instance |
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Detail
| Important Windows-based guest privilege escalation in VMware Tools A kernel memory corruption vulnerability is present in the VMware Tools "Shared Folders" (HGFS) feature running on Microsoft Windows. Successful exploitation of this issue could lead to an escalation of privilege in the guest operating system. VMware would like to thank Dmitry Janushkevich from the Secunia Research Team for reporting this issue to us. Note: This vulnerability does not allow for privilege escalation from the guest operating system to the host. Host memory can not be manipulated from the guest operating system by exploiting this flaw. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2015-6933 to this issue. Workarounds Removing the "Shared Folders" (HGFS) feature from previously installed VMware Tools will remove the possibility of exploitation. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0001.html |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-284 | Access Control (Authorization) Issues |
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 | |
| Application | 3 | |
| Application | 3 | |
| Os | 7 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2016-01-15 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.0 host is affected by a guest privilege escalation v... File : vmware_esxi_5_0_build_3086167_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-15 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.1 host is affected by a guest privilege escalation v... File : vmware_esxi_5_1_build_3070626_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-15 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi 5.5 host is affected by a guest privilege escalation v... File : vmware_esxi_5_5_build_3248547_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-15 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi 6.0 host is affected by a guest privilege escalation v... File : vmware_esxi_6_0_build_3380124_remote.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-14 | Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affecte... File : macosx_fusion_vmsa_2016_0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-14 | Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote host is affected by a gu... File : vmware_player_linux_vmsa_2016_0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-14 | Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote host is affected by a gu... File : vmware_player_priv_esc_vmsa_2016_0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-14 | Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote host is affected by a gu... File : vmware_workstation_linux_vmsa_2016_0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-14 | Name : A virtualization application installed on the remote host is affected by a gu... File : vmware_workstation_priv_esc_vmsa_2016_0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-13 | Name : The remote VMware ESXi host is missing a security-related patch. File : vmware_VMSA-2016-0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2016-01-08 | Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update. File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2016-0001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2016-01-20 21:26:13 |
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| 2016-01-20 13:28:16 |
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| 2016-01-18 00:27:26 |
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| 2016-01-18 00:23:17 |
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