CVE-2015-6933 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2015-6933?

CVE-2015-6933 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Esxi, published on 9 Jan 2016. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The VMware Tools HGFS (aka Shared Folders) implementation in VMware Workstation 11.x before 11.1.2, VMware Player 7.x before 7.1.2, VMware Fusion 7.x before 7.1.2, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 6.0 allows Windows guest OS users to gain guest OS privileges or cause a denial of service (guest OS kernel memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-6933?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Vmware Esxi, Vmware Fusion, Vmware Player, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2015-6933?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-6933 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2015-6933 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-6933 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Esxi

• CVE-2026-41709 Broadcom VMWare ESX Insufficient Logging Exploited Low 2.7
• CVE-2019-5521 Information disclosure in VMware ESXi Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-22252 Use-after-free vulnerability Critical 9.3
• CVE-2020-3955 Cross-site scripting in ESXi Critical 9.3
• CVE-2010-4573 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.3

All Vmware Esxi vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-gh38-v7fv-5hxj.