Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
CVE-2008-1363
VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3 and 5.5.x before 5.5.6, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3 and 1.0.x before 1.0.6, VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 and 1.0.x before 1.0.5, and VMware Server 1.0.x before 1.0.5 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via an unspecified manipulation of a config.ini file located in an Application Data folder, which can be used for "hijacking the VMX process."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (34.1th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 34th percentile — 34.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41252 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/3755 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)