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CVE-2008-1361

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1361 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple VMware products, including Workstation, Player, ACE, and Server on Windows. An authenticated local attacker could exploit an unspecified manipulation to force the authd process to connect to an arbitrary named pipe, thereby gaining elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.8 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C), this vulnerability is considered high severity due to its potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
3.1
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
27.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0035 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 15,938 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.vmware.com / pipermail/security-announce/2008/000008.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
securityreason.com / securityalert/3755
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41257
securityfocus.com / archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28276
Patch
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0005.html
PatchVendor Advisory
vmware.com / support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html
PatchVendor Advisory
vmware.com / support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html
PatchVendor Advisory
vmware.com / support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html
PatchVendor Advisory
vmware.com / support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html
PatchVendor Advisory
vmware.com / support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html
PatchVendor Advisory
vmware.com / support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/0905/references