CVE-2008-4917

highpriority · track · 29EPSS 0.005 · 40 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.46% (40th) EPSS

CVSS 7.2 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and 2.0.5 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.0.9 and earlier; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2 through 3.5 allows guest OS users to have an unknown impact by sending the virtual hardware a request that triggers an arbitrary physical-memory write operation, leading to memory corruption.

cvss

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

7.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.1–7.2

v2.07.2highAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 10

v2.06.1mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimary

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
vmware esx3.0.2 → 3.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi= 3.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player1.0.0 → 1.0.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player2.0 → 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware server1.0 → 1.0.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation5.5 → 5.5.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation6.0 → 6.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-12-09modified 2026-06-16

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references (20)

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