CVE-2007-5617: VMware Player

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Player 1.0.x before 1.0.5 and 2.0 before 2.0.1, and Workstation 5.x before 5.5.5 and 6.x before 6.0.1, prevents it from launching, which has unspecified impact, related to untrusted virtual machine images.

Affected products

• VMware Player: from 1.0.0, before 1.0.5 (fixed in 1.0.5); from 2.0, before 2.0.1 (fixed in 2.0.1)
• VMware Workstation: from 5.5, before 5.5.5 (fixed in 5.5.5); from 6.0, before 6.0.1 (fixed in 6.0.1)

Published 2007-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.