CVE-2007-1877
HIGH · CVSS 7.8EPSS 1.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- EPSS score
- 1.6% (75th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-1871)
- Published
- May 2, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-1871 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- vmware / workstation
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- VMware VMkernel Cryptographic Module 2.0 - VMware, Inc. - FIPS 140 4815 - active
- VMware® vSphere 5.5 Update 2 - VMware Inc. - Common Criteria 383-4-300 - archived
References
- 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(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1592
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33992
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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