{"cve":"CVE-2008-4917","nvd":{"published":"2008-12-09T00:30:00.283","modified":"2026-06-16T22:58:45.700","status":"Modified","description":"Unspecified vulnerability in VMware Workstation 5.5.8 and earlier, and 6.0.5 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player 1.0.8 and earlier, and 2.0.5 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.0.9 and earlier; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2 through 3.5 allows guest OS users to have an unknown impact by sending the virtual hardware a request that triggers an arbitrary physical-memory write operation, leading to memory corruption.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-399"],"references":["http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980","http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986","http://secunia.com/advisories/32965","http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xml","http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300"],"products":["vmware:esx","vmware:esxi","vmware:player","vmware:server","vmware:workstation"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:53:23.791937413+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2008-4917","score":0.00462,"percentile":0.40077,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}