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Vulnerability details: VCID-p6fe-jgzc-aaae
Vulnerability ID VCID-p6fe-jgzc-aaae
Aliases CVE-2009-3707
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 2.0
Weighted Severity 4.5
Risk 9.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
System Score Found at
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cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3707
Reference id Reference type URL
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2010-04/0077.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-04/0121.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2010/000090.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2009-3707
http://secunia.com/advisories/36988
http://secunia.com/advisories/39206
http://secunia.com/advisories/39215
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022997
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36630
http://www.shinnai.net/exploits/abFwcLOuFqmD20yqhYpQ.txt
http://www.shinnai.net/index.php?mod=02_Forum&group=02_Bugs_and_Exploits&argument=01_Remote&topic=1254924405.ff.php
http://www.shinnai.net/xplits/TXT_JtYUv6C6j5b6Bw6iIkF4.html
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2010-0007.html
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CVE-2009-3707 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3707
CVE-2009-3707;OSVDB-58728 Exploit https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/windows/dos/33271.py
CVE-2009-3707;OSVDB-58728 Exploit https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36630/info
GLSA-201209-25 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201209-25
Data source Exploit-DB
Date added Oct. 7, 2009
Description VMware Player / VMware Workstation 6.5.3 - 'VMware-authd' Remote Denial of Service
Ransomware campaign use Known
Source publication date Oct. 7, 2009
Exploit type dos
Platform windows
Source update date Oct. 7, 2017
Source URL https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36630/info
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3707
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.94426
EPSS Score 0.16891
Published At April 3, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
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