CVE-2007-5438
Unspecified vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Reconfig.DLL in VMware Workstation 5.5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000, VMware…
- 1.9LowCVSS base score
- 0.37%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 69% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in a certain ActiveX control in Reconfig.DLL in VMware Workstation 5.5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000, VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488, VMware Player 1.x before 1.0.8 build 108000, VMware Player 2.x before 2.0.5 build 109488, VMware ACE 1.x before 1.0.7 build 108880, VMware ACE 2.x before 2.0.5 build 109488, and VMware Server before 1.0.7 build 108231 might allow local users to cause a denial of service to the Virtual Disk Mount Service (vmount2.exe), related to the ConnectPopulatedDiskEx function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 | Low1.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
21
- 43488 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 3219 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0014.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31709 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.eleytt.com/advisories/eleytt_VMWARE1.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ace2/doc/releasenotes_ace2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1020791 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/player2/doc/releasenotes_player2.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31710 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20071010 [ELEYTT] 10PAZDZIERNIK2007 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ace/doc/releasenotes_ace.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/player/doc/releasenotes_player.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws6/doc/releasenotes_ws6.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 26025 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080830 VMSA-2008-0014 Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Server, VMware ESX address information disclosure, privilege escalation and other security issues. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20080830 VMSA-2008-0014 Updates to VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Server, VMware ESX address information disclosure, privilege escalation and other security issues. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/releasenotes_ws55.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31707 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31708 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2466 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2007-5414 (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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