open-vm-tools — security advisory
Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.
- Products
- open-vm-tools
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2011-1787
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Race condition in mount.vmhgfs in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 7.1.x before 7.1.4, VMware Player 3.1.x before 3.1.4, VMware Fusion 3.1.x before 3.1.3, VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1, and VMware ESX 3.0.3 through 4.1 allows guest OS users to gain privileges on the guest OS by mounting a filesystem on top of an arbitrary directory.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2011-1787
open-vm-tools
Fixed versions: 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
open-vm-tools
Fixed versions: 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
open-vm-tools
Fixed versions: 2:8.4.2+2011.08.21-471295-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:50.987045379Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 419276,
"published_at": "2011-06-06T19:55:01.987+00:00"
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