CVE-2008-3698

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

03/09/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the OpenProcess function in VMware Workstation 5.5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000, VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488, VMware Player 1.x before 1.0.8 build 108000, VMware Player 2.x before 2.0.5 build 109488, VMware ACE 1.x before 1.0.7 build 108880, VMware ACE 2.x before 2.0.5 build 109488, and VMware Server before 1.0.7 build 108231 on Windows allows local host OS users to gain privileges on the host OS via unknown vectors.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace::::::::	1.0 (including)	1.0.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	1.0.0 (including)	1.0.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:server::::::::		1.0.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.5.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.5 (excluding)

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CVE-2008-3698

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools