CVE-2008-2098: VMware Ace 2

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) in VMware Workstation 6 before 6.0.4 build 93057, VMware Player 2 before 2.0.4 build 93057, VMware ACE 2 before 2.0.2 build 93057, and VMware Fusion before 1.1.2 build 87978, when folder sharing is used, allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware Ace 2: version 2.0 only; version 2.01 only
• VMware Fusion: version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only
• VMware VMware Player 2: version 2.0 only; version 2.01 only; version 2.02 only; version 2.03 only
• VMware VMware Workstation: version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 6.03 only
• VMware Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2008-06-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.