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CVE-2007-1877
VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service against the guest OS by causing the virtual machine process…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
VMware Workstation before 5.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial of service against the guest OS by causing the virtual machine process (VMX) to store malformed configuration information.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 27 days later
· 27 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 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% 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: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 23732 (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
- vmware-vmx-dos(33992) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1018011 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2007-1871 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-1877)Record last updated .