VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2012-1515

CVSS score8.3 HIGH
EPSS probability0.81%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2012-04-02
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 and ESX 3.5, 4.0, and 4.1 do not properly implement port-based I/O operations, which allows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges by overwriting memory locations in a read-only memory block associated with the Virtual DOS Machine.

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