CVE-2008-1362

CVE-2008-1362 is a local privilege escalation and denial-of-service vulnerability affecting multiple VMware products on Windows, including Workstation, Player, ACE, and Server. An attacker can exploit this by impersonating the authd process through an insecurely created named pipe. With a CVSS score of 7.2 (high severity), this vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain full control (C:C/I:C/A:C) with low attack complexity (AV:L/AC:L). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.