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CVE-2015-1044

13
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

3.3LOW

AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
6.5
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0083 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 94 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

secunia.com / advisories/62551
secunia.com / advisories/62569
secunia.com / advisories/62669
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/100935
securityfocus.com / bid/72336
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1031645
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1031646
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0001.html
PatchVendor Advisory