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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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