01 Record
CVE-2008-4281
Directory traversal vulnerability in VMWare ESXi 3.5 before ESXe350-200810401-O-UG and ESX 3.5 before ESX350-200810201-UG allows administrators with the Datastore.FileManagement privilege to gain
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in VMWare ESXi 3.5 before ESXe350-200810401-O-UG and ESX 3.5 before ESX350-200810201-UG allows administrators with the Datastore.FileManagement privilege to gain
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.87% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 79.1% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-11-10 11:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-09-26
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- add1b4a56665a80babc965dc826dca3157dbdca1d9c5396e5d71a8dcaeea81cf
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.vmware.com[Security-announce] 20081106 VMSA-2008-0018 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issueshttp://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000042.html
- www.securityfocus.com32172http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32172
- www.securityfocus.com20081107 VMSA-2008-0018 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve two security issueshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498138/100/0/threaded
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:6425https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6425
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comvmware-virtualcenter-directory-traversal(46418)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46418
- secunia.com32624http://secunia.com/advisories/32624
- www.securitytracker.com1021155http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021155
- www.vmware.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0018.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-3052http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3052