CVE-2007-4155

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-08-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in vielib.dll in EMC VMware 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local programs via a full pathname in the first two arguments to the (1) CreateProcess or (2) CreateProcessEx method.

Affected products

EMC Vmware: 6.0.0

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/26890
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25131
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018511
http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.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/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229

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