CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2016-5330
High (7.8) in vmware. EPSS 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Untrusted search path vulnerability in the HGFS (aka Shared Folders) feature in VMware Tools 10.0.5 in VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0, VMware Workstation Pro 12.1.x before 12.1.1, VMware Workstation Player 12.1.x before 12.1.1, and VMware Fusion 8.1.x before 8.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory.
Severity
- EPSS
- 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-426
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- vmware:esxi
- vmware:fusion
- vmware:tools
- vmware:workstation_player
- vmware:workstation_pro