CVE-2007-1877 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service against the guest OS by causing the virtual machine process (VMX) to store malformed configuration information.

Published: 2007-05-02

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 1.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2007-1871	VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service against the guest OS by causing the virtual machine process (VMX) to store malformed configuration information.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01174.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://secunia.com/advisories/25079
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467936/30/6690/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/469011/30/6510/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23732
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018011
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#554
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1592
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33992

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Vmware Workstation

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-05-02T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T13:13:41.969Z

Reserved: 2007-04-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-1877

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-05-02T19:19:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-1877

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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