CVE-2008-1361
VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3 and 5.5.x before 5.5.6, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3 and 1.0.x before 1.0.6, VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 and 1.0.x before 1.0.5, and VMware Server 1.0.x before 1.0.5 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges via an unspecified manipulation that causes the authd process to connect to an arbitrary named pipe, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1362.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (27th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1368)
- Published
- March 20, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1368 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 / ace
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / server
- vmware / vmware server
- 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
- vmware / workstation
- vmware / workstation
- 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.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3755
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019621
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276(Patch)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html(Patch, Vendor 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/server/doc/releasenotes_server.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
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41257
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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