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CVE-2009-1244

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-04-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the virtual machine display function in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier; VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.9 build 156507 and 2.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.4 build 159196; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4916.

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)
• VMware ESX: 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.5
• VMware ESXi: 3.5
• VMware Fusion: through 2.0.3; 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 2.0 (+2)
• VMware Player: through 2.5.1; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+10)
• VMware Server: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+5)
• VMware Workstation: through 6.5.1; 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.1, 1.1.1 (+28)

References

• http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000055.html
• http://osvdb.org/53634
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502615/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34471
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022031
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0006.html
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0944
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49834
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6065
• http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000055.html
• http://osvdb.org/53634

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