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CVE-2012-5459
Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows allows host OS…
High7.9EPSS 0.61%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.5 on Windows allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in a "system folder."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 21 days later
· 21 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 | High7.9 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.61% · top 51% 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 7.9.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 56470 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 87119 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0015.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- workstation-dll-code-exec(79923) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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