CVE-2011-1681

Estado: ModificadaBaja (3.3)—

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.

CVSS

Versión: 2.0
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Puntuación base: 3.3

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.44%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 36
Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Vmware — Open-vm-tools

CWE

CWE-16

Referencias

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