CVE-2007-1744: VMware Workstation

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Workstation: up to and including 5.5.3

Published 2007-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.