cve-2007-1056
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-02-21 23:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:43
Severity ?
Summary
VMware Workstation 5.5.3 build 34685 does not provide per-user restrictions on certain privileged actions, which allows local users to perform restricted operations such as changing system time, accessing hardware components, and stopping the "VMware tools service" service. NOTE: exploitation is simplified via (1) weak file permissions (Users = Read & Execute) for %PROGRAMFILES%\VMware; and weak registry key permissions (access by Users) for (2) vmmouse, (3) vmscsi, (4) VMTools, (5) vmx_svga, and (6) vmxnet in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\; which allows local users to perform various privileged actions outside of the guest OS by executing certain files under %PROGRAMFILES%\VMware\VMware Tools, as demonstrated by (a) VMControlPanel.cpl and (b) vmwareservice.exe.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/45244
cve@mitre.orghttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/2281
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460664/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461807/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/45244
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2281
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/460664/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461807/100/0/threaded
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