CVE-2008-0967

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.004 · 29 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.36% (29th) EPSS

CVSS 6.9 · medium

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38 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Untrusted search path vulnerability in vmware-authd in VMware Workstation 5.x before 5.5.7 build 91707 and 6.x before 6.0.4 build 93057, VMware Player 1.x before 1.0.7 build 91707 and 2.x before 2.0.4 build 93057, and VMware Server before 1.0.6 build 91891 on Linux, and VMware ESXi 3.5 and VMware ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5, allows local users to gain privileges via a library path option in a configuration file.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.9mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 10

v2.05.9mediumAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-426USLLM-inferred

affected products (38)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
vmware esx= 3.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx= 3.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx= 3.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx server= 2.5.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx server= 3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx server= 3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx server= 3.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx server= 3.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi= 3.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 1.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 1.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 1.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 1.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 1.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 1.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 1.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-06-05modified 2026-06-16

references (24)

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