CVE-2007-5617
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 2.2%EU EUVD
Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Player 1.0.x before 1.0.5 and 2.0 before 2.0.1, and Workstation 5.x before 5.5.5 and 6.x before 6.0.1, prevents it from launching, which has unspecified impact, related to untrusted virtual machine images.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 2.2% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5589)
- Published
- October 21, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5589 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- vmware / player
- vmware / workstation
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- VMware® vSphere 5.5 Update 2 - VMware Inc. - Common Criteria 383-4-300 - archived
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26890(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27706(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-23.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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