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CVE-2008-1392

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1392 describes a critical misconfiguration in older versions of VMware Workstation, Player, and ACE, where the guest OS console is exposed via anonymous VIX API calls. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a severe risk with network-based attack vectors, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vmware_workstation:6.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0273 is in the 73rd percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41551
securityfocus.com / archive/1/489739/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28276
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/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html