Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMWare ACE 1.0.2 and 2.0.2, Player 1.0.4 and 2.0.2, and Workstation…

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMWare ACE 1.0.2 and 2.0.2, Player 1.0.4 and 2.0.2, and Workstation 5.5.4 and 6.0.2 allows guest OS users to read and write arbitrary files on the host OS via a multibyte string that produces a wide character string containing .. (dot dot) sequences, which bypasses the protection mechanism, as demonstrated using a "%c0%2e%c0%2e" string.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.49% · top 58% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-22 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (20)

• 27944 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 29117 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2129 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 20080225 CORE-2007-0930 Path Traversal vulnerability in VMware's shared folders implementation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1019493 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 20080318 VMSA-2008-0005 Updated VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware Server, VMware ACE, and VMware Fusion resolve critical security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004034 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [security-announce] 20080317 VMSA-2008-0005 Updated VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware Server, VMware ACE, and VMware Fusion resolve critical security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2008-0905 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• vmware-sharedfolders-directory-traversal(40837) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• ADV-2008-0679 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 20080225 CORE-2007-0930 Path Traversal vulnerability in VMware's shared folders implementation (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• 28276 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 3700 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_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)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 08:01 UTC.