Riskcovery

CVE-2017-4943

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Dec 20, 2017
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Dec 26, 2016

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Description

VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) (6.5 before 6.5 U1d) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability via the 'showlog' plugin. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged user gaining root level privileges over the appliance base OS.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)VMware
  • 6.5 before 6.5 U1dAffected

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