CVE-2008-1363 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple VMware products, including Workstation, Player, ACE, and Server on Windows. An attacker can gain elevated privileges by manipulating a config.ini file in the Application Data folder, effectively hijacking the VMX process. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating high severity due to local access, low attack complexity, and complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.0, < 1.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.0, < 2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.0, < 2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.0, < 1.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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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.