CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-3994

7.4 HIGH Published 2020-10-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Description

VMware vCenter Server (6.7 before 6.7u3, 6.6 before 6.5u3k) contains a session hijack vulnerability in the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface update function due to a lack of certificate validation. A malicious actor with network positioning between vCenter Server and an update repository may be able to perform a session hijack when the vCenter Server Appliance Management Interface is used to download vCenter updates.

Affected configurations

• vmware cloud foundation (>= 3.0 < 3.9) • vmware vcenter server 6.5 • vmware vcenter server 6.7

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References