Executive Summary

Summary
Title VMware vSphere Data Protection product update addresses a certificate validation vulnerability
Informations
Name VMSA-2015-0002 First vendor Publication 2015-01-29
Vendor VMware Last vendor Modification 2015-01-29
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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

a. VMware vSphere Data Protection certificate validation vulnerability

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) does not fully validate SSL certificates coming from vCenter Server. This issue may allow a Man-in-the-Middle attack that enables the attacker to perform unauthorized backup and restore operations.

VMware would like to thank Thorsten Tüllmann of the Steinbuch Centre for Computing, KIT, Germany for reporting this issue to VMware and the EMC Product Security Response Center for working with us on the issue.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2014-4632 to this issue.

Original Source

Url : http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2015-0002.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 6

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2015-02-05 IAVM : 2015-B-0016 - VMware vSphere Data Protection Certificate Validation Security Bypass Vulnera...
Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0058529

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-02-12 Name : The remote host has a virtualization appliance installed that is affected by ...
File : vmware_vsphere_data_protection_vmsa-2015-0002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-01-07 Name : The remote OracleVM host is missing a security update.
File : oraclevm_OVMSA-2015-0002.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2015-02-13 13:24:06
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2015-02-03 05:26:53
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2015-02-01 09:25:37
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2015-01-30 05:25:16
  • First insertion