Untrusted search path vulnerability in VMware Tools in VMware Workstation before 8.0.4, VMware Player before 4.0.4, VMware Fusion before 4.1.2, VMware View before 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.1 before U3 and 5.0 before P03 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse tpfc.dll file in the current working directory.
CVE-2012-1666 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 5 products from vmware, from vmware, from vmware and 2 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2012, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2012-09-08T10:28:20.367
2026-04-29T01:13:23.040
Modified
CVSSv2: 6.9 (MEDIUM)
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
3.4
10.0
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | vmware | workstation | ≤ 8.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.0.18997 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.1.27038 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | workstation | 8.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | ≤ 4.0.3 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0.0.18997 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | player | 4.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | fusion | ≤ 4.1.1 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | fusion | 4.0 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | fusion | 4.0.1 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | fusion | 4.0.2 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | fusion | 4.1 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | view | ≤ 5.0 | Yes |
| Application | vmware | view | 4.6.0 | Yes |
| Operating System | vmware | esx | 4.1 | Yes |
| Operating System | vmware | esx | 5.0 | Yes |
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