CVE-2009-1244
Unspecified vulnerability in the virtual machine display function in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier; VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.9 build 156507 and 2.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.4 build 159196; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4916.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1243)
- Published
- April 13, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1243 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 / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / ace
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esx
- vmware / esxi
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / fusion
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / player
- vmware / server
- vmware / server
- vmware / server
and 43 more…
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://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2009/000055.html(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/53634
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502615/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34471(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022031
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0006.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0944
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49834
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6065
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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