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VMware Player: ACE shared folders vulnerability (VMSA-2009-0005) (CVE-2009-0908)

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VMware Player: ACE shared folders vulnerability (VMSA-2009-0005) (CVE-2009-0908)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/06/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/30/2013
Modified
02/13/2014

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the ACE shared folders implementation in the VMware Host Guest File System (HGFS) shared folders feature in VMware ACE 2.5.1 and earlier allows attackers to enable a disabled shared folder.

Solution(s)

  • vmware-player-upgrade-2_5_2

References

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