CVE-2015-6933: VMware ESXi

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VMware Tools HGFS (aka Shared Folders) implementation in VMware Workstation 11.x before 11.1.2, VMware Player 7.x before 7.1.2, VMware Fusion 7.x before 7.1.2, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0 allows Windows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS kernel memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware ESXi: version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only
• VMware Fusion: version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.1.1 only
• VMware Player: version 7.0 only; version 7.1 only; version 7.1.1 only
• VMware Workstation: version 11.0 only; version 11.1 only; version 11.1.1 only

Published 2016-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.