CVE-2009-1244

high

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the virtual machine display function in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier; VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.9 build 156507 and 2.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.4 build 159196; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4916.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6065

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49834

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0944

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0006.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022031

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34471

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502615/100/0/threaded

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml

http://osvdb.org/53634

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000055.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-04-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High