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CVE-2007-1744
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMware Workstation before 5.5.4, when a folder is shared, allows users…
- 6.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.45%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 61% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the Shared Folders feature for VMware Workstation before 5.5.4, when a folder is shared, allows users on the guest system to write to arbitrary files on the host system via the "Backdoor I/O Port" interface.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 35 days later
· 35 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.3 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.45% · top 61% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 1017980 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 23721 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1592 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20070518 VMSA-2007-0004.1 Updated: Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed and directory traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 25079 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20070427 VMware Workstation Shared Folders Directory Traversal Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html#554 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20070507 VMSA-2007-0004 Multiple Denial-of-Service issues fixed (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-1738 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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