Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2012-5978 First vendor Publication 2012-12-19
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-09-19

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:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) View Connection Server and (2) View Security Server in VMware View 4.x before 4.6.2 and 5.x before 5.1.2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5978

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17049
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17049
Title: VMware View releases address a critical directory traversal vulnerability in the View Connection Server and View Security Server
Description: Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) View Connection Server and (2) View Security Server in VMware View 4.x before 4.6.2 and 5.x before 5.1.2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2012-5978
 Version: 4
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows XP
 Product(s): VMware View
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 9

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-01-24 Name : The remote host has a desktop solution that affected by a directory traversal...
File : vmware_view_vmsa_2012_0017.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0017.html
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027875

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2021-05-04 12:22:41
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2017-09-19 09:25:38
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2016-04-26 22:33:25
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2014-02-17 11:14:44
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2013-11-04 21:24:30
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2013-05-10 22:50:29
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2013-03-16 18:30:59
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2013-01-30 13:25:08
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2012-12-20 21:19:05
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2012-12-19 13:26:08
  • First insertion