CVE-2011-1787
EPSS 0.07%
Description
Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.
How to fix CVE-2011-1787
To remediate CVE-2011-1787, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/open-vm-tools—upgrade to 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1 or later
Is CVE-2011-1787 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1