CVE-2011-1681

Severity Score

3.3

*CVSS v2

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

vmware-hgfsmounter en VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (también conocido como open-vm-tools) v8.4.2-261024 y anteriores se añaden al fichero /etc/mtab sin primero verificar si los límites de recursos interfieren, lo que permite a usuarios locales provocar la corrupción de este fichero a través de un proceso con un valor pequeño RLIMIT_FSIZE, un asunto relacionado con CVE-2011-1089.

*Credits: N/A

CVSS Scores

NISTv2 3.3

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

None

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2011-04-09 CVE Reserved
2011-04-10 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2024-08-06 First Exploit
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-16: Configuration

CAPEC

References (20)

URL	Tag	Source
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/7	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/07/9	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/16	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/5	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/14/7	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/6	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/4	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/22/6	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/4	Mailing List
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/01/2	Mailing List
http://secunia.com/advisories/44904	Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66699	Vdb Entry

URL	Date	SRC
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/31/3	2024-08-06
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688980	2024-08-06

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://hermes.opensuse.org/messages/8711677	2017-08-17

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Vmware Search vendor "Vmware"		Open-vm-tools Search vendor "Vmware" for product "Open-vm-tools"				<= 8.4.2-261024 Search vendor "Vmware" for product "Open-vm-tools" and version " <= 8.4.2-261024"		-		Affected