CVE-2009-0908

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-04-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the ACE shared folders implementation in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) shared folders feature in VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier allows attackers to enable a disabled shared folder.

Affected products

VMware Ace: through 2.5.1; 1.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+10)

References

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000054.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Apr/0036.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34373
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021975
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0005.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0944
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6399
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000054.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Apr/0036.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34373
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021975
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0005.html

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