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CVE-2007-5671

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-06-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

HGFS.sys in the VMware Tools package in VMware Workstation 5.x before 5.5.6 build 80404, VMware Player before 1.0.6 build 80404, VMware ACE before 1.0.5 build 79846, VMware Server before 1.0.5 build 80187, and VMware ESX 2.5.4 through 3.0.2 does not properly validate arguments in user-mode METHOD_NEITHER IOCTLs to the \\.\hgfs device, which allows guest OS users to modify arbitrary memory locations in guest kernel memory and gain privileges.

Affected products

• VMware Ace: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4
• VMware ESX: 2.5.4, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
• VMware Esx Server: 2.5.5
• VMware Player: 1.0.4
• VMware Server: 1.0.3
• Vmware Player: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.5
• Vmware Server: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.4
• Vmware Workstation: 5.5.0, 5.5.2, 5.5.5
• VMware Workstation: 5.5.1, 5.5.3, 5.5.4

References

• http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=712
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30556
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3922
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1020197
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493148/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493172/100/0/threaded
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5358
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5688

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