CVE-2009-1244: VMware Ace

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in the virtual machine display function in VMware Workstation 6.5.1 and earlier; VMware Player 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.9 build 156507 and 2.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.4 build 159196; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4916.

Affected products

• VMware Ace: up to and including 2.5.1; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; …
• VMware Esx: version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.5 only
• VMware ESXi: version 3.5 only
• VMware Fusion: up to and including 2.0.3; version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only; version 1.1.1 only; version 1.1.2 only; version 1.1.3 only; …
• VMware Player: up to and including 2.5.1; 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; …
• VMware Server: version 1.0 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 Workstation: up to and including 6.5.1; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; version 1.1 only; …

Published 2009-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.