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CVE-2008-2097
Buffer overflow in the openwsman management service in VMware ESXi 3.5 and ESX 3.5 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges…
High9.0EPSS 3.9%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in the openwsman management service in VMware ESXi 3.5 and ESX 3.5 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges via an "invalid Content-Length."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.7% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (12)
- ADV-2008-1744 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0009.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 30556 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5640 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1020199 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 29547 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080604 VMSA-2008-0009 Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Fusion, VMware Server, VMware VIX API, VMware ESX, VMware ESXi resolve critical security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5759 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 3922 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- vmware-openwsman-privilege-escalation(42875) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 30581 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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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