CVE-2022-31697

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Dec 13, 2022
Updated: Apr 22, 2025
Reserved: May 25, 2022

Description

The vCenter Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in plaintext. A malicious actor with access to a workstation that invoked a vCenter Server Appliance ISO operation (Install/Upgrade/Migrate/Restore) can access plaintext passwords used during that operation.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundationn/a	VMware (7.0 prior to 7.0 U3i, 6.7 prior to 6.7.0 U3s, 6.5 prior to 6.5 U3u), VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x, 3.x)Affected

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0030.html

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