CVE-2007-1877 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting VMware Workstation versions prior to 5.5.4, where a malicious actor can cause the virtual machine process (VMX) to store malformed configuration data, leading to a guest OS crash. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8, indicating high severity, with a network attack vector and low attack complexity, resulting in a complete loss of availability for the guest operating system. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old flaw.
| 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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.
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.