CVE-2011-2217

50Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 42%

from disclosure to weapon370 days

Published on NVDJun 6

1st PoC+370d

metasploitMay 3

exploitation probability

42%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Certain ActiveX controls in (1) tsgetxu71ex552.dll and (2) tsgetx71ex552.dll in Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory 5.5.2.237, as used in VI Client (aka VMware Infrastructure Client) 2.0.2 before Build 230598 and 2.5 before Build 204931 in VMware Infrastructure 3, do not properly handle attempted initialization within Internet Explorer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted HTML document.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=911 http://secunia.com/advisories/44826 http://secunia.com/advisories/44844 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025602 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67816 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48099 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0009.html