{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5972 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2013-5972 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2013-5972 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Player, published on 16 Nov 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2013-5972 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2013-5972 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Player, published on 16 Nov 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-5972 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Vmware Player. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-5972/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-5972/index.md)","id":"CVE-2013-5972","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-5972/index.md","name":"CVE-2013-5972","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-m5hv-qvxr-7rrh"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"VMware virtualization software","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Local users can escalate privileges to the host OS via improper shared library handling in VMware Workstation and Player on Linux.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"player","vendor":"vmware"},{"product":"workstation","vendor":"vmware"}],"cvss":{"score":7.2,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-264","name":null}],"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-5972","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"vmware:player","products":["vmware:player","vmware:workstation"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2013"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-5973"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Auth bypass in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-5971"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2013-11-16","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-5617","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-10-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-2077","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-05-18"},{"cvss_score":8.3,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2012-5458","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2012-11-14"},{"cvss_score":7.9,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2012-5459","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2012-11-14"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2007-5618","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2007-10-21"},{"cvss_score":6.9,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2013-1662","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2013-08-24"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-17","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Local users can escalate privileges to the host OS via improper shared library handling in VMware Workstation and Player on Linux.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-5972/"}