CVE-2009-3707 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting various VMware products, including Workstation, Player, ACE, and Server. The flaw, categorized as a format string vulnerability (CWE-134), allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the VMware Authentication Daemon (vmware-authd.exe) by sending a specific character sequence (\x25\xFF) within the USER and PASS commands. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability for the affected service. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog or currently under active exploitation, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:2.5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.