CVE-2007-5671
HGFS.sys in the VMware Tools package in VMware Workstation 5.x before 5.5.6 build 80404, VMware Player before 1.0.6 build 80404, VMware ACE before 1.0.5 build 79846, VMware Server before 1.0.5 build 80187, and VMware ESX 2.5.4 through 3.0.2 does not properly validate arguments in user-mode METHOD_NEITHER IOCTLs to the \\.\hgfs device, which allows guest OS users to modify arbitrary memory locations in guest kernel memory and gain privileges.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (33th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5643)
- Published
- June 5, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5643 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx server
- vmware / player
- vmware / server
- vmware / vmware player
- vmware / vmware player
- vmware / vmware player
- vmware / vmware player
- vmware / vmware player
- vmware / vmware server
- vmware / vmware server
- vmware / vmware server
- vmware / vmware server
- vmware / vmware workstation
- vmware / vmware workstation
- vmware / vmware workstation
- vmware / workstation
- vmware / workstation
- vmware / workstation
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=712
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30556(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3922
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020197
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493148/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493172/100/0/threaded
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5358
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5688
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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