{"id":"CVE-2011-1681","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2011-1681","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:08:29.425Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2011-04-10T02:55:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:29:49.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":3.3,"severity":"LOW","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-16"],"affected":["vmware/open-vm-tools"],"epss":{"score":0.00445,"percentile":0.38442,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.45%). 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