CVE-2010-1140: VMware Player

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The USB service in VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600 and VMware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600 on Windows might allow host OS users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse program at an unspecified location on the host OS disk.

Affected products

• VMware Player: version 3.0 only
• VMware Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2010-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.