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CVE-2012-1508
The XPDM display driver in VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0; VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1; and VMware View before 4.6.1 allows guest OS users to…
High7.2EPSS 0.40%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
The XPDM display driver in VMware ESXi 4.0, 4.1, and 5.0; VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1; and VMware View before 4.6.1 allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 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 | High7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.40% · top 66% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- 80115 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1026814 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0004.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 48378 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 48379 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20120316 VMSA-2012-0004 VMware View privilege escalation and cross-site scripting (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 52524 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0005.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1026818 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17183 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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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