CVE-2011-1681

low VMware
CVSS v3 Base Score
3.3
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 75% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
None
Published: April 10, 2011 (5513 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: VMware
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

CWE-16

Affected Products

vmware open-vm-tools

References

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