3.9 Low
AI Score
Confidence
High
6.4 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
0.007 Low
EPSS
Percentile
80.6%
VMware Fusion is prone to host privilege escalation vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:vmware:fusion";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.806755");
script_version("2024-02-09T05:06:25+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2014-8370");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.4");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2024-02-09 05:06:25 +0000 (Fri, 09 Feb 2024)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2016-05-20 09:35:33 +0530 (Fri, 20 May 2016)");
script_name("VMware Fusion Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (May 2016) - Mac OS X");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"VMware Fusion is prone to host privilege escalation vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to an arbitrary file write
issue.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation would allow an attacker
to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service by modifying a
configuration file.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"VMware Fusion 6.x before 6.0.5 on
Mac OS X.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to VMware Fusion version
6.0.5 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"executable_version");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0001.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72338");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2016 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("secpod_vmware_fusion_detect_macosx.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("VMware/Fusion/MacOSX/Version");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!vmwareVer = get_app_version(cpe:CPE))
exit(0);
if(vmwareVer =~ "^6\.") {
if(version_is_less(version:vmwareVer, test_version:"6.0.5")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vmwareVer, fixed_version:"6.0.5");
security_message(data:report);
exit(0);
}
}