CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4917

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-06-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-327

Description

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 6.1.x, 6.0.x, 5.8.x, and 5.5.x locally stores vCenter Server credentials using reversible encryption. This issue may allow plaintext credentials to be obtained.

Affected configurations

• vmware vsphere data protection 5.5.5 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.5.6 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.5.7 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.5.8 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.5.9 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.5.10 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.5.11 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.8.0 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.8.1 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.8.2 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.8.3 • vmware vsphere data protection 5.8.4 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.0.0 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.0.1 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.0.2 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.0.3 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.0.4 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.1.0 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.1.1 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.1.2 • vmware vsphere data protection 6.1.3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm weakness

References