CVE-2008-2100
Multiple buffer overflows in VIX API 1.1.x before 1.1.4 build 93057 on VMware Workstation 5.x and 6.x, VMware Player 1.x and 2.x, VMware ACE 2.x, VMware Server 1.x, VMware Fusion 1.x, VMware ESXi 3.5, and VMware ESX 3.0.1 through 3.5 allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unspecified vectors.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.2 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 0.6% (47th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2097)
- 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-2008-2097 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- vmware / ace
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx server
- vmware / esx server
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / player
- vmware / server
- 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://secunia.com/advisories/30556(Third Party Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3922(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020200(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493080/100/0/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29552(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1744(Permissions Required)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42872(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5081(Third Party Advisory)
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5647(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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