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CVE-2011-1681

LOW · CVSS 3.3 EPSS 0.44%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2011-04-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a low severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 3.3. It affects VMware, VMWare.

CVE
CVE-2011-1681
Severity
LOW
CVSS
3.3
EPSS
0.44%
VMware VMWare

Original NVD 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.