CVE-2012-2449
vmware: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x through 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly configure the virtual floppy device, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.
- EPSS
- 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vmware:esx
- vmware:esxi
- vmware:fusion
- vmware:player
- vmware:workstation