CVE-2012-4897: VMware Movie Decoder

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in the installer in VMware Movie Decoder before 9.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse executable file in the installer directory.

Affected products

• VMware Movie Decoder: up to and including 7.1.2; version 6.5.2 only; version 6.5.3 only; version 6.5.4 only; version 6.5.5 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2012-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.