CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5990
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
VMWare VirtualCenter client 2.x before 2.0.1 Patch 1 (Build 33643) and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 Patch 1 (Build 33425), when server certificate verification is enabled, does not verify the server's X.509 certificate when creating an SSL session, which allows remote malicious servers to spoof valid servers via a man-in-the-middle attack.
Affected configurations
• vmware virtualcenter 1.4.1
• vmware virtualcenter 2.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/4646606 kb.vmware.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23053 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017270 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452275/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21231 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vc-201-200611-patch.html Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4655 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30477 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://kb.vmware.com/kb/4646606 kb.vmware.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23053 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017270 securitytracker.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452275/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21231 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vc-201-200611-patch.html Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4655 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30477 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com