CVE-2008-0923

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40837

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0905/references

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0679

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019493

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28276

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27944

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488725/100/0/threaded

http://www.coresecurity.com/?action=item&id=2129

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3700

http://secunia.com/advisories/29117

http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-February/060457.html

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1004034

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-02-26

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High