CVE-2008-0967: VMware Esx

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in vmware-authd in VMware Workstation 5.x before 5.5.7 build 91707 and 6.x before 6.0.4 build 93057, VMware Player 1.x before 1.0.7 build 91707 and 2.x before 2.0.4 build 93057, and VMware Server before 1.0.6 build 91891 on Linux, and VMware ESXi 3.5 and VMware ESX 2.5.4 through 3.5, allows local users to gain privileges via a library path option in a configuration file.

Affected products

• VMware Esx: version 3.0.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only
• VMware Esx Server: version 2.5.5 only; version 3.1 only; version 3.2 only; version 3.3 only; version 3.5 only
• VMware ESXi: version 3.5 only
• VMware Player: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; …
• VMware Server: version 1.0.3 only
• VMware VMware Server: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only
• VMware VMware Workstation: version 5.5.0 only; version 5.5.2 only; version 5.5.5 only; version 5.5.6 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; …
• VMware Workstation: version 5.5.1 only; version 5.5.3 only; version 5.5.4 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2008-06-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.