cve-2016-7459
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-29 09:02
Modified
2024-08-06 01:57
Severity ?
Summary
VMware vCenter Server 5.5 before U3e and 6.0 before U2a allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a (1) Log Browser, (2) Distributed Switch setup, or (3) Content Library XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.
Impacted products
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