CVE-2013-5972 — VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3 and VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3 on Linux do not properly handle shared libraries, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors

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HIGH

VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3 and VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3 on Linux do not properly handle shared libraries, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors

Published Nov 16, 2013

7.2

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.41%

Description

VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.3 and VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.3 on Linux do not properly handle shared libraries, which allows host OS users to gain host OS privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.41% 0.00411

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00411

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (11 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.41% (0.00411)	32.94th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.41% (0.00411)	32.52th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00046)	11.31th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	14.58th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Apr 25, 2024	0.04% (0.00044)	11.68th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.47th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00044)	10.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00885)	27.89th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	26.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	24.24th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00885)	10.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (1)

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0013.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0013.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 16, 2013

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Oct 1, 2013

Link CVE-2013-5972

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2013-5972

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2013-5972