CVE-2007-4155

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Absolute path traversal vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in vielib.dll in EMC VMware 6.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary local programs via a full pathname in the first two arguments to the (1) CreateProcess or (2) CreateProcessEx method.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-08-03 21:17:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

EMC VMware 6.0.0

6.0.0

References

20070920 VMSA-2007-0006 Critical security updates for all supported versions of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, and VMware Player

26890

25131

1018511

http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html

ADV-2007-3229

vmware-createprocess-code-execution(35670)

4245

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