VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service against the guest OS by causing the virtual machine process…

Description

VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service against the guest OS by causing the virtual machine process (VMX) to store malformed configuration information.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 23732 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2007-1592 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20070518 VMSA-2007-0004.1 Updated: Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed and directory traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 25079 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• vmware-vmx-dos(33992) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 1018011 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#554 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20070507 VMSA-2007-0004 Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2007-1877](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2007-1877.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2007-1877)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 13:13 UTC.