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CVE-2009-1542

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
15/07/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) in Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 SP1, 2007, and 2007 SP1, and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, does not enforce CPU privilege-level requirements for all machine instructions, which allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary kernel-mode code and gain privileges within the guest OS via a crafted application, aka "Virtual PC and Virtual Server Privileged Instruction Decoding Vulnerability."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): Single
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.00
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_pc:2004:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_pc:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_pc:2007:*:x64:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_pc:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_server:2005:r2_sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:virtual_server:2005:r2_sp1:x64:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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