CVE-2008-1361

VMware <6.0.3, <5.5.6 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 that causes the authd process to connect to an arbitrary named pipe, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1362.

References (15)

Core 15
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019621
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41257
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded
Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276

Scores

EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 12.4%

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (28)
vmware/ace 1.0
vmware/ace 1.0.1
vmware/ace 1.0.2
vmware/ace 1.0.3
vmware/ace 1.0.4
vmware/ace 2.0
vmware/player 1.0.2
vmware/player 1.0.3
vmware/player 1.0.4
vmware/player 1.0.5
... and 18 more
Published Mar 20, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026