CVE-2013-1406: VMware Esx

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) implementation in vmci.sys in VMware Workstation 8.x before 8.0.5 and 9.x before 9.0.1 on Windows, VMware Fusion 4.1 before 4.1.4 and 5.0 before 5.0.2, VMware View 4.x before 4.6.2 and 5.x before 5.1.2 on Windows, VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1 does not properly restrict memory allocation by control code, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware Esx: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only
• VMware ESXi: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only
• VMware Fusion: version 4.1 only; version 4.1.1 only; version 4.1.2 only; version 4.1.3 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only
• VMware View: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.5 only; version 4.6.0 only; version 4.6.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.0 only; …
• VMware Workstation: 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; version 8.0.3 only; …

Published 2013-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.