CVE-2011-2145: VMware Esx

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1, when a Solaris or FreeBSD guest OS is used, allows guest OS users to modify arbitrary guest OS files via unspecified vectors, related to a "procedural error."

Affected products

• VMware Esx: version 3.0.3 only; version 3.5 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only
• VMware ESXi: version 3.5 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only
• VMware Fusion: version 3.1 only; version 3.1.1 only; version 3.1.2 only
• VMware Player: version 3.1 only; version 3.1.1 only; version 3.1.2 only; version 3.1.3 only
• VMware Workstation: version 7.1.1 only; version 7.1.2 only; version 7.1.3 only

Published 2011-06-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.