CVE-2013-5972: VMware Player

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3 and VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3 on Linux do not properly handle shared libraries, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware Player: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only
• VMware Workstation: version 9.0 only; version 9.0.1 only; version 9.0.2 only

Published 2013-11-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.