CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-4943

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-12-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) (6.5 before 6.5 U1d) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability via the 'showlog' plugin. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged user gaining root level privileges over the appliance base OS.

Affected configurations

• vmware vcenter server 6.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References