CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-7462
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264, CWE-749
Description
The Suite REST API in VMware vRealize Operations (aka vROps) 6.x before 6.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary content to files or rename files via a crafted DiskFileItem in a relay-request payload that is mishandled during deserialization.
Affected configurations
• vmware vrealize operations 6.0.0
• vmware vrealize operations 6.1.0
• vmware vrealize operations 6.2.0a
• vmware vrealize operations 6.2.1
• vmware vrealize operations 6.3.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-749 Exposed Dangerous Method or Function weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94351 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037297 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0020.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2016-34 Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94351 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037297 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0020.html Vendor Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2016-34 Technical Description, Third Party Advisory