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CVE-2014-8370
VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.5, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.5, VMware Fusion 6.x before 6.0.5, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.5, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.5, VMware Fusion 6.x before 6.0.5, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5 allow host OS users to gain host OS privileges or cause a denial of service (arbitrary write to a file) by modifying a configuration file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.0% 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 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- JVN#88252465 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
- 1031642 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- JVNDB-2015-000007 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDBx_transferred
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0001.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 62605 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 72338 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- vmware-cve20148370-priv-esc(100933) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 62551 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1031643 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 62669 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2014-8207 (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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