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CVE-2007-5023

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-09-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Unquoted Windows search path vulnerability in EMC VMware Workstation before 5.5.5 Build 56455 and 6.x before 6.0.1 Build 55017, Player before 1.0.5 Build 56455 and Player 2 before 2.0.1 Build 55017, ACE before 1.0.3 Build 54075, and Server before 1.0.4 Build 56528 allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, possibly involving a malicious "program.exe" file in the C: folder.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
• VMware Ace: from 1.0 through 1.0.3
• VMware Player: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.5; from 2.0 through 2.0.1
• VMware Server: from 1.0 through 1.0.4
• VMware Workstation: from 5 through 5.5.5; from 6.0 through 6.0.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25732
• http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.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.securityfocus.com/bid/25732
• http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.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

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