CVE-2008-0923 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2008-0923

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMWare...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ace, player, vmware player, vmware workstation, workstation
Vulnerable Versions:
1.0, 1.0.2, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 1.0.4, 1.0.1_build_19317, 1.0.3, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 4.5.2, 5.5.3_build_34685, 5.5.4, 6.0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 26th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.