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CVE-2012-1509
Buffer overflow in the XPDM display driver in VMware View before 4.6.1 allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges via unspecified…
High7.2EPSS 0.42%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in the XPDM display driver in VMware View before 4.6.1 allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges 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)
- 0.42% · top 63% 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 (9)
- vmware-view-xpdm-priv-esc(74096) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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
- 80116 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17151 (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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