{"id":"CVE-2006-3547","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-3547","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:40:24.421Z","title":"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.","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":"2006-07-13T00:05:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:27:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["vmware/player"],"epss":{"score":0.00872,"percentile":0.58599,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.87%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/27524","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437756/100/200/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437806/100/200/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437809/100/200/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/27524","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437756/100/200/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437806/100/200/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437809/100/200/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3547","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}