CVE-2011-1787
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…
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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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 48 days later
· 48 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 84% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- 44904 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 48098 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 44840 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1025601 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2011:0617 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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