CVE-2007-1876 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in VMware Workstation versions prior to 5.5.4. Specifically, a local user on a 64-bit Windows guest operating system running on a 64-bit host could corrupt the virtual machine's register context by debugging a local program and stepping into a syscall instruction. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity. It requires local access (AV:L) and low attack complexity (AC:L), with no authentication needed (Au:N), leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:C/I:C/A:C). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting a low level of public awareness or concern.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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