CVE-2017-4922 — Sensitive Information Exposure in Vmware Vcenter Server

CWE-200 — Sensitive Information Exposure3 documents3 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 36.59%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Vmware Vcenter Server
Timeline
PublishedAug 1
Latest updateMay 17

Description

VMware vCenter Server (6.5 prior to 6.5 U1) contains an information disclosure issue due to the service startup script using world writable directories as temporary storage for critical information. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to access certain critical information when the service gets restarted.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

Patches

Patch: www.vmware.com ↗Patch: www.vmware.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5vr8-x3cf-hqhj: VMware vCenter Server (6↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2017-4922: VMware vCenter Server (6↗2017-08-01
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CVE-2017-4922 — Sensitive Information Exposure | cvebase