CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It affects VMware, VMWare. Its EPSS score suggests a 11.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
Original NVD Description
VMware Authentication Daemon 1.0 in vmware-authd.exe in the VMware Authorization Service in VMware Workstation 7.0 before 7.0.1 build 227600 and 6.5.x before 6.5.4 build 246459, VMware Player 3.0 before 3.0.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, VMware ACE 2.6 before 2.6.1 build 227600 and 2.5.x before 2.5.4 build 246459, and VMware Server 2.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a \x25\xFF sequence in the USER and PASS commands, related to a "format string DoS" issue. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.