CVE-2012-1666: VMware Esx

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.1.2, VMware View before 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.1 before U3 and 5.0 before P03 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse tpfc.dll file in the current working directory.

Affected products

• VMware Esx: version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only
• VMware Fusion: up to and including 4.1.1; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.1 only
• VMware Player: up to and including 4.0.3; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.0.18997 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only
• VMware View: up to and including 5.0; version 4.6.0 only
• VMware Workstation: up to and including 8.0.3; version 8.0 only; version 8.0.0.18997 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.0.1.27038 only; version 8.0.2 only

Published 2012-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.