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2 vulnerabilities found for vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) by VMware
CVE-2017-4943 (GCVE-0-2017-4943)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-12-20 15:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:40
VLAI?
Summary
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) (6.5 before 6.5 U1d) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability via the 'showlog' plugin. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged user gaining root level privileges over the appliance base OS.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- Privilege escalation vulnerability
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| VMware | vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) |
Affected:
6.5 before 6.5 U1d
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CVE-2017-4943 (GCVE-0-2017-4943)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2017-12-20 15:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:40
VLAI?
Summary
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) (6.5 before 6.5 U1d) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability via the 'showlog' plugin. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged user gaining root level privileges over the appliance base OS.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- Privilege escalation vulnerability
Assigner
References
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VMware | vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) |
Affected:
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