CVE-2008-2098

medium VMware
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.9
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
0.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 72% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: June 2, 2008 (6554 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: VMware
Source: NVD

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 6 before 6.0.4 build 93057, VMware Player 2 before 2.0.4 build 93057, VMware ACE 2 before 2.0.2 build 93057, and VMware Fusion before 1.1.2 build 87978, when folder sharing is used, allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

CWE

CWE-119

Affected Products

vmware ace 2vmware fusionvmware vmware player 2vmware vmware workstationvmware workstation

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 security.gentoo.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 www.vmware.com