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CVE-2010-4295
Race condition in the mounting process in vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 7.x before 7.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Player 3.1.x…
Medium6.9EPSS 0.29%
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- mitre
Description
Race condition in the mounting process in vmware-mount in VMware Workstation 7.x before 7.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 301548 on Linux, VMware Server 2.0.2 on Linux, and VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.2 build 332101 allows host OS users to gain privileges via vectors involving temporary files.
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)
- 0.29% · top 79% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (10)
- [security-announce] 20101202 VMSA-2010-0018 VMware hosted products and ESX patches resolve multiple security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 69585 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0018.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 45167 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20101203 VMSA-2010-0018 VMware hosted products and ESX patches resolve multiple security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 42453 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1024819 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 42482 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2010-3116 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1024820 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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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