CVE-2015-1044 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the vmware-authd process affecting VMware Workstation 10.x, VMware Player 6.x, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 3.3, can be triggered by an unauthenticated attacker on the adjacent network (AV:A), leading to a partial impact on the host OS availability (A:P). While there is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, there has been some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of the issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:10.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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