CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-8371
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-310
Description
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.5 before Update 2, 5.1 before Update 3, and 5.0 before Update 3c does not properly validate certificates when connecting to a CIM Server on an ESXi host, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof CIM servers via a crafted certificate.
Affected configurations
• vmware vcenter server appliance 5.0
• vmware vcenter server appliance 5.1
• vmware vcenter server appliance 5.5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html Vendor Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/23 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534161/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0012.html Vendor Advisory