CVE-2007-0833 — VMware Workstation 5.5.3 34685, when the "Enable copy and paste to and from this virtual machine" option is enabled, preserves clipboard data on the guest operating system after it was deleted on the host operating system, which might allow local users to read clipboard contents by moving the focus back to the host operating system

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VMware Workstation 5.5.3 34685, when the "Enable copy and paste to and from this virtual machine" option is enabled, preserves clipboard data on the guest operating system after it was deleted on the host operating system, which might allow local users to read clipboard contents by moving the focus back to the host operating system

Published Feb 7, 2007

1.2

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.28%

Description

VMware Workstation 5.5.3 34685, when the "Enable copy and paste to and from this virtual machine" option is enabled, preserves clipboard data on the guest operating system after it was deleted on the host operating system, which might allow local users to read clipboard contents by moving the focus back to the host operating system.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.28% 0.00277

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00277

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (9 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.28% (0.00277)	18.25th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.26% (0.00264)	17.52th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.05% (0.00051)	13.14th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00042)	5.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00042)	5.63th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.89% (0.00890)	30.33th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 10, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	28.64th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	26.62th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.89% (0.00890)	12.04th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://osvdb.org/33221
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459140/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22413
vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://osvdb.org/33221		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/459140/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22413		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Feb 7, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Feb 7, 2007

Link CVE-2007-0833

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-0833

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-0833