CVE-2008-2101 (GCVE-0-2008-2101)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-03 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) command-line utilities in VMware ESX 3.0.1 through 3.0.3 and ESX 3.5 place a password on the command line, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by listing the process.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://secunia.com/advisories/31713 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30937 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495869/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| http://securitytracker.com/id?1020794 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
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Date Public
2008-08-30 00:00
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"source": "nvd@nist.gov",
"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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