Virtual Machine

VM (Virtual Machine) Escape

Shared Folder

If the VM admin sets a folder containing sensitive files as Shared Folder, we can get sensitive information by getting into the folder.

VirtualBox

# Linux
cd /media/sf_<folder-name>

# Windows
cd \\VBOXSVR\\<folder-name>

VMWare

# Linux
cd /mnt/vmhgs/<folder-name>

# Windows
cd \\vmware-host\Shared Folder\<folder-name>