{"cve":"CVE-2011-1681","nvd":{"published":"2011-04-10T02:55:02.633","modified":"2026-06-16T23:29:49.137","status":"Modified","description":"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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-16"],"references":["http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/10","http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/11","http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/12","http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/04/9","http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/05/3"],"products":["vmware:open-vm-tools"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:58:50.521460154+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2011-1681","score":0.00445,"percentile":0.38706,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}