CVE-2008-1362: VMware Ace

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.3 and 5.5.x before 5.5.6, VMware Player 2.0.x before 2.0.3 and 1.0.x before 1.0.6, VMware ACE 2.0.x before 2.0.1 and 1.0.x before 1.0.5, and VMware Server 1.0.x before 1.0.5 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service by impersonating the authd process through an unspecified use of an "insecurely created named pipe," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1361.

Affected products

• VMware Ace: version 1.0 only; version 2.0 only
• VMware Player: version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; …
• VMware Server: version 1.0.3 only
• VMware VMware Server: version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.4 only
• VMware VMware Workstation: version 5.5.5 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only
• VMware Workstation: version 5.5 only; version 5.5.3_build_34685 only; version 5.5.3_build_42958 only; version 5.5.4 only; version 5.5.4_build_44386 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2008-03-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.