Executive Summary

Summary
Title - vRealize Operations (vROps) updates address privilege escalation vulnerability
Informations
Name VMSA-2016-0016 First vendor Publication 2016-10-11
Vendor VMware Last vendor Modification 2016-11-15
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

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:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 8 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 8.5 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 8 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

vROps privilege escalation issue

vROps contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. Exploitation of this issue may allow a vROps user who has been assigned a low-privileged role to gain full access over the application. In addition it may be possible to stop and delete Virtual Machines managed by vCenter.

VMware would like to thank Edgar Carvalho for reporting this issue to us.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2016-7457 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-2016-0016.html

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-12-29 21:25:16
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-29 13:22:01
  • Multiple Updates
2016-11-16 09:23:23
  • Multiple Updates
2016-10-12 00:23:53
  • First insertion