Categories Security & Privacy Escaping VMware Workstation through COM1 Post author By Andreas Post date June 22, 2015 A bug in VMWare’s vprintproxy.exe process allows the guest OS to escape it’s environment through the COM1 serial port. via: Escaping VMware Workstation through COM1 Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Related Tags Bug, com1, escape, sandbox, security, virtualization, vmware ← The women whom science forgot → There is no cloud.
A bug in VMWare’s vprintproxy.exe process allows the guest OS to escape it’s environment through the COM1 serial port.