CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-5532

7.7 HIGH Published 2019-09-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-09-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.7 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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-532

Description

VMware vCenter Server (6.7.x prior to 6.7 U3, 6.5 prior to 6.5 U3 and 6.0 prior to 6.0 U3j) contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in plain-text for virtual machines deployed through OVF. A malicious user with access to the log files containing vCenter OVF-properties of a virtual machine deployed from an OVF may be able to view the credentials used to deploy the OVF (typically the root account of the virtual machine).

Affected configurations

• vmware vcenter server 6.0 • vmware vcenter server 6.7 • vmware vcenter server 6.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-532 Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File weakness

References