VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2011-1681
CVSS score3.3 LOW
EPSS probability0.44%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2011-04-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Description
vmware-hgfsmounter in VMware Open Virtual Machine Tools (aka open-vm-tools) 8.4.2-261024 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of this file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.