CVE-2008-1363

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

20/03/2008

Last modified:

09/04/2025

Description

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."

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:o:microsoft:windows::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace::::::::	1.0 (including)	1.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.1 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	1.0.0 (including)	1.0.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player::::::::	2.0 (including)	2.0.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:server::::::::	1.0 (including)	1.0.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.5.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation::::::::	6.0 (including)	6.0.3 (excluding)

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CVE-2008-1363

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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