CVE-2011-1681Not scoredCWE-16

CVE-2011-1681: Vmware Open-Vm-Tools vulnerability

Vmware · Open-Vm-Tools

Vendor fix available · Affected: Vmware Open-Vm-Tools · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

0.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

39th percentile

050100

Higher than 39% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.

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Exploitation: Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Configuration · Misconfiguration and Insecure Design
Vendor: Vmware
Published: April 2011
Band: Unlikely (under 1%), April 2011

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References

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