CVE-2008-0923

Published Feb 26, 2008 CVSS 2.0 · 6.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-0930 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 8:01 AM
Reserved
Feb 25, 2008, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 26, 2008, 12:44 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:50 PM