Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title - vSphere Data Protection (VDP) updates address multiple security issues
Informations
Name VMSA-2017-0010 First vendor Publication 2017-06-06
Vendor VMware Last vendor Modification 2017-06-06
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

a. VDP Java deserialization issue.

VDP contains a deserialization issue. Exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to execute commands on the appliance.

VMware would like to thank Tim Roberts, Arthur Chilipweli, and Kelly Correll from NTT Security for reporting this issue to us.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4914 to this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

b. VDP locally stores vCenter Server credentials.

VDP locally stores vCenter Server credentials using reversible encryption. This issue may allow plaintext credentials to be obtained.

VMware would like to thank Marc Ströbel aka phroxvs from HvS-Consulting for reporting this issue to VMware.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2017-4917 to this issue.

Column 5 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.

Original Source

Url : http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0010.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data
50 % CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 22

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-06-09 Name : A virtualization appliance installed on the remote host is affected by multip...
File : vmware_vsphere_data_protection_vmsa-2017-0010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-06-13 21:24:14
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-10 13:26:01
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-08 00:24:29
  • Multiple Updates
2017-06-06 21:23:14
  • First insertion