$ cve CVE-2008-3892 JSON

CVE-2008-3892 EXPLOIT

10.0

HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 24.4% (pctl 98)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

Buffer overflow in a certain ActiveX control in the COM API in VMware Workstation 5.5.x before 5.5.8 build 108000, VMware Workstation 6.0.x before 6.0.5 build 109488, VMware Player 1.x before 1.0.8 build 108000, VMware Player 2.x before 2.0.5 build 109488, VMware ACE 1.x before 1.0.7 build 108880, VMware ACE 2.x before 2.0.5 build 109488, and VMware Server before 1.0.7 build 108231 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a call to the GuestInfo method in which there is a long string argument, and an assignment of a long string value to the result of this call. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2008-3691, CVE-2008-3692, CVE-2008-3693, CVE-2008-3694, CVE-2008-3695, or CVE-2008-3696.

Scoring

CVSS	10.0 (HIGH, v2.0)
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS	24.36% — more likely to be exploited than 98% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-119
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	yes
Published	2008-09-03
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (4)

Vendor	Product
vmware	ace
vmware	player
vmware	server
vmware	workstation

Public exploits

Source	Title	Date
exploit-db	VMware - COM API ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow (PoC)	2008-09-01

References

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