CVE-2008-0923

CVSS V2 Medium 6.9 CVSS V3 None
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMWare ACE 1.0.2 and 2.0.2, Player 1.0.4 and 2.0.2, and Workstation 5.5.4 and 6.0.2 allows guest OS users to read and write arbitrary files on the host OS via a multibyte string that produces a wide character string containing .. (dot dot) sequences, which bypasses the protection mechanism, as demonstrated using a "%c0%2e%c0%2e" string.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2008-0923
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2008-02-26T00:44:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-10-15T22:03:30
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-22 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/22.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_player:1.0.1_build_19317:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_player:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_player:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_workstation:6.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_workstation:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:4.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:5.5.3_build_34685:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:5.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 6.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.4
  • Impact Score
  • 10
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2129
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27944
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019493
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-February/060457.html
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004034
http://secunia.com/advisories/29117
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3700
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0679
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40837
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488725/100/0/threaded
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0923
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0923
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:18:15 Added to TrackCVE