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CVE-2008-4281
Directory traversal vulnerability in VMWare ESXi 3.5 before ESXe350-200810401-O-UG and ESX 3.5 before ESX350-200810201-UG allows…
High9.3EPSS 1.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in VMWare ESXi 3.5 before ESXe350-200810401-O-UG and ESX 3.5 before ESX350-200810201-UG allows administrators with the Datastore.FileManagement privilege to gain privileges via unknown vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.9% · top 21% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- [Security-announce] 20081106 VMSA-2008-0018 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 32172 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20081107 VMSA-2008-0018 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6425 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- vmware-virtualcenter-directory-traversal(46418) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 32624 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1021155 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0018.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3052 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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)
Record last updated .