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CVE-2008-1361

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: 2008-03-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3 and 5.5.x before 5.5.6, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3 and 1.0.x before 1.0.6, VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 and 1.0.x before 1.0.5, and VMware Server 1.0.x before 1.0.5 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via an unspecified manipulation that causes the authd process to connect to an arbitrary named pipe, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1362.

Affected products

• VMware Ace: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 2.0
• VMware Player: 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 2.0, 2.0.1 (+1)
• VMware Server: 1.0.3
• Vmware Server: 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4
• Vmware Workstation: 5.5.5, 6.0.1, 6.0.2
• VMware Workstation: 5.5, 5.5.3_build_34685, 5.5.3_build_42958, 5.5.4, 5.5.4_build_44386, 6.0

References

• http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1019621
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.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

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