Privilege escalation

2017-12-2015:29:00

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VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) (6.5 before 6.5 U1d) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability via the ‘showlog’ plugin. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged user gaining root level privileges over the appliance base OS.

CPENameOperatorVersion
vcenter_servereq6.5 f
vcenter_servereq6.5 e
vcenter_servereq6.5 d
vcenter_servereq6.5 c
vcenter_servereq6.5 b
vcenter_servereq6.5 a
vcenter_servereq6.5 update1
vcenter_servereq6.5 update1c
vcenter_servereq6.5 update1b

Name	Operator	Version
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 f
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 e
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 d
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 c
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 b
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 a
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 update1
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 update1c
vcenter_server	eq	6.5 update1b