Privileges escalation vulnerabilities in VMware products

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability was found in VMware products. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can gain privileges. This vulnerability can be exploited locally via DLL hijack.

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Technical details

This vulnerability related to HGFS (aka Shared Folders) feature.

Original advisories

• VMware advisory

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

• VMware-Workstation
• VMware-Player
• VMware-Fusion

CVE list

• CVE-2016-5330
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