CVE-2009-3707

mediumpriority · track · 34EPSS 0.111 · 96 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

11.1% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

25 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

VMware Authentication Daemon 1.0 in vmware-authd.exe in the VMware Authorization Service in VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600 and 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459, VMware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, VMware ACE 2.6 before 2.6.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, and VMware Server 2.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a \x25\xFF sequence in the USER and PASS commands, related to a "format string DoS" issue. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

cvss

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

5.0

010

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

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-134USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-33271VMware Player / VMware Workstation 6.5.3 - 'VMware-authd' Remote Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db

affected products (25)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
vmware ace= 2.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware ace= 2.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware ace= 2.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware ace= 2.5.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware ace= 2.5.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware ace= 2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware ace= 2.6.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:ace:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 2.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 2.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 2.5.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 2.5.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 2.5.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware player= 3.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware server= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware server= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware server= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation= 6.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware workstation= 6.5.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:workstation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2009-10-16modified 2026-06-16

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