CVE-2014-1208: VMware Esx

Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Workstation 9.x before 9.0.1, VMware Player 5.x before 5.0.1, VMware Fusion 5.x before 5.0.1, VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and VMware ESX 4.0 and 4.1 allow guest OS users to cause a denial of service (VMX process disruption) by using an invalid port.

Affected products

• VMware Esx: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only
• VMware ESXi: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.1 only
• VMware Fusion: version 5.0 only
• VMware Player: version 5.0 only
• VMware Workstation: version 9.0 only

Published 2014-01-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.