CVE-2012-2450: VMware Esx

High severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.3, VMware Player 4.x before 4.0.3, VMware Fusion 4.x before 4.1.2, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.0, and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly register SCSI devices, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (invalid write operation and VMX process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS by leveraging administrative privileges on the guest OS.

Affected products

• VMware Esx: 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; version 5.0 only
• VMware Fusion: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only
• VMware Player: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only
• VMware Workstation: version 8.0 only; version 8.0.1 only; version 8.0.2 only

Published 2012-05-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.