CVE-2018-6978

published 2018-12-18

CVE-2018-6978: vRealize Operations (7.x before 7.0.0.11287810, 6.7.x before 6.7.0.11286837 and 6.6.x before 6.6.1.11286876) contains a local privilege escalation…

Priority P4 28 medium 6.7 CVSS 3.0

AV L AC L PR H UI N S U C H I H A H

vRealize Operations (7.x before 7.0.0.11287810, 6.7.x before 6.7.0.11286837 and 6.6.x before 6.6.1.11286876) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper permissions of support scripts. Admin user of the vROps application with shell access may exploit this issue to elevate the privileges to root on a vROps machine. Note: the admin user (non-sudoer) should not be confused with root of the vROps machine.

Affected

3 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	vrealize_operations	>= 6.6.0 < 6.6.1.11286876	6.6.1.11286876
vmware	vrealize_operations	>= 6.7.0 < 6.7.0.11286837	6.7.0.11286837
vmware	vrealize_operations	>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.0.11287810	7.0.0.11287810

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.0 6.7 MEDIUM CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.2 HIGH AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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