CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7459

7.7 HIGH Published 2016-12-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-611

Description

VMware vCenter Server 5.5 before U3e and 6.0 before U2a allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via a (1) Log Browser, (2) Distributed Switch setup, or (3) Content Library XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected configurations

• vmware vcenter server 5.0 • vmware vcenter server 5.5 • vmware vcenter server 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

References