CVE-2008-4917

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Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions.

VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and 2.0.5 and earlier 2.x versions.

VMware Server 1.0.9 and earlier.

VMware ESXi 3.5.

and VMware ESX 3.0.2 through 3.5 allows guest OS users to have an unknown impact by sending the virtual hardware a request that triggers an arbitrary physical-memory write operation, leading to memory corruption.

HIGH · CVSS 7.2 EPSS 0.00073

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CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

Sigma rules17 YARA rules0

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Affected Products & Versions

vmware esx>= 3.0.2 and <= 3.5
vmware esxiall versions
vmware player>= 1.0.0 and <= 1.0.8
vmware player>= 2.0 and <= 2.0.5
vmware server>= 1.0 and <= 1.0.9
vmware workstation>= 5.5 and <= 5.5.8
vmware workstation>= 6.0 and <= 6.0.5

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Sigma Hunt Rules

Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.

producthighESXi Admin Permission Assigned To Account Via ESXCLI

productmediumESXi Storage Information Discovery Via ESXCLI

productmediumESXi Network Configuration Discovery Via ESXCLI

productmediumESXi VSAN Information Discovery Via ESXCLI

productmediumESXi System Information Discovery Via ESXCLI

productmediumESXi VM Kill Via ESXCLI

Show all 17 top matchesproductmediumESXi Syslog Configuration Change Via ESXCLI
productmediumESXi VM List Discovery Via ESXCLI
producthighUAC Bypass Using Windows Media Player - File
producthighUAC Bypass Using Windows Media Player - Process
producthighUAC Bypass Using Windows Media Player - Registry
producthighFlash Player Update from Suspicious Location
producthighPotential Server Side Template Injection In Velocity
producthighRemote Server Service Abuse for Lateral Movement
producthighRemote Server Service Abuse
producthighSuspicious Child Process Of SQL Server
producthighSuspicious Process By Web Server Process

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Scoring & Timeline

7.2

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published to NVD09 Dec 2008 · 12:30 AM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980PatchVendor Advisory

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/32965Third Party Advisory

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xmlThird Party Advisory

http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threadedThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threadedThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246Third Party Advisory

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