CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-2481
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-07-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
VMware ESX Server 2.0.x before 2.0.2 and 2.x before 2.5.2 patch 4 stores authentication credentials in base 64 encoded format in the vmware.mui.kid and vmware.mui.sid cookies, which allows attackers to gain privileges by obtaining the cookies using attacks such as cross-site scripting (CVE-2005-3619).
Affected configurations
• vmware esx 2.0
• vmware esx 2.0.1
• vmware esx 2.1
• vmware esx 2.1.1
• vmware esx 2.1.2
• vmware esx 2.5
• vmware esx 2.5.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2118366 kb.vmware.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21230 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.corsaire.com/advisories/c060512-001.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441728/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441825/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19249 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3075 Vendor Advisory
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2118366 kb.vmware.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21230 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.corsaire.com/advisories/c060512-001.txt Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441728/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441825/100/100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19249 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3075 Vendor Advisory