CVE-2011-2217: Tomsawyer Get Extension Factory

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Certain ActiveX controls in (1) tsgetxu71ex552.dll and (2) tsgetx71ex552.dll in Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory 5.5.2.237, as used in VI Client (aka VMware Infrastructure Client) 2.0.2 before Build 230598 and 2.5 before Build 204931 in VMware Infrastructure 3, do not properly handle attempted initialization within Internet Explorer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

• Tomsawyer Get Extension Factory: version 5.5.2.237 only
• VMware Infrastructure: version 3 only
• VMware Virtual Infrastructure Client: version 2.0.2 only; version 2.5 only

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