CVE-2006-3547 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

EMC VMware Player allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (unrecoverable application failure) via a long value of the ide1:0.fileName parameter in the .vmx file of a virtual machine. NOTE: third parties have disputed this issue, saying that write access to the .vmx file enables other ways of stopping the virtual machine, so no privilege boundaries are crossed

Published: 2006-07-13

Score: 5.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00392.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
http://www.osvdb.org/27524
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437756/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437806/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437809/100/200/threaded

History

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}` ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

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Vmware Player

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-07-13T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-01-17T13:58:42.936Z

Reserved: 2006-07-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-3547

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-07T18:30:34.372Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-07-13T00:05:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2006-3547

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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