CVE-2019-5538

published 2019-10-28

CVE-2019-5538: Sensitive information disclosure vulnerability resulting from a lack of certificate validation during the File-Based Backup and Restore operations of VMware…

medium 5.9 CVSS 3.1

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

Sensitive information disclosure vulnerability resulting from a lack of certificate validation during the File-Based Backup and Restore operations of VMware vCenter Server Appliance (6.7 before 6.7u3a and 6.5 before 6.5u3d) may allow a malicious actor to intercept sensitive data in transit over SCP. A malicious actor with man-in-the-middle positioning between vCenter Server Appliance and a backup target may be able to intercept sensitive data in transit during File-Based Backup and Restore operations.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
vmware	vcenter_server	—	—
vmware	vcenter_server	—	—

CWE-295