Collection of historical performance data fails after upgrading to vSphere 5.5 Update 3

Challenge After update to vCenter 5.5 U3 historical performance collection fails with error "Unable to collect performance. A specified parameter was not correct. querySpec.size". Cause With vCenter 5.5 Update 3 VMware has limited the size of query in order to protect the vCenter database more...

PT-2016-31: XML External Entity Injection in vCenter Server

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an XML External Entity Injection in vCenter Server. Vulnerability in the Log Browser, Distributed Switch setup, and Content Library in the vCenter Server allows an authorized user to obtain sensitive information by sending a specially...

PT-2016-32: XML External Entity Injection in vCenter Server and vRealize Automation

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an XML External Entity Injection in vCenter Server. Vulnerability in the Single Sign-On implementation in VMware vCenter Server and vRealize Automation allows attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information via a...

PT-2016-12: HTTP Header Injection in VMware vCenter Server and ESXi

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an HTTP Header Injection vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server and ESXi. The application does not properly sanitize user input before using it in HTTP response headers that allows a malicious user to inject arbitrary headers into HTTP...

The software for managing VMware vCenter Server is vulnerable, allowing attackers to cause a system failure.

The vulnerability of the Host Heartbeat service for VMware software that manages virtual infrastructure exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to trigger an emergency shutdown of the service by sending a specially crafted UDP...

VMware vCenter Server JMX RMI Service Vulnerability

VMware vCenter Server is a set of server and virtualization management software from VMware. A security vulnerability exists in the JMX RMI service of VMware vCenter Server. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code via the RMI protocol...

VMware vCenter Server vpxd Service Denial of Service Vulnerability

VMware vCenter Server is a set of server and virtualization management software from VMware. A security vulnerability exists in the vpxd service of VMware vCenter Server. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service with the help of a long heartbeat message...

CVE-2015-2342

The JMX RMI service in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before u3e, 5.1 before u3b, 5.5 before u3, and 6.0 before u1 does not restrict registration of MBeans, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the RMI protocol...

Design/Logic Flaw

The JMX RMI service in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before u3e, 5.1 before u3b, 5.5 before u3, and 6.0 before u1 does not restrict registration of MBeans, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the RMI protocol...

CVE-2015-1047

vpxd in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before u3e, 5.1 before u3, and 5.5 before u2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long heartbeat message...

Code injection

vpxd in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before u3e, 5.1 before u3, and 5.5 before u2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long heartbeat message...

CVE-2015-2342

The JMX RMI service in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before u3e, 5.1 before u3b, 5.5 before u3, and 6.0 before u1 does not restrict registration of MBeans, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the RMI protocol...

CVE-2015-1047

vpxd in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before u3e, 5.1 before u3, and 5.5 before u2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long heartbeat message...

CVE-2015-2342

CVE-2015-2342 concerns the JMX RMI service in VMware vCenter Server. Multiple sources (NVD, SUSE, CNVD, CIRCL) describe that vCenter Server versions 5.0 (before u3e), 5.1 (before u3b), 5.5 (before u3), and 6.0 (before u1) expose an overly permissive JMX RMI endpoint that does not restrict MBean r...

CVE-2015-1047

VMware products affected by CVE-2015-1047 include vCenter Server (vpxd) 5.0 before u3e, 5.1 before u3, and 5.5 before u2 (DoS via long heartbeat) and ESXi 5.0/5.1/5.5 with OpenSLP OpenSLP OpenSLP double-free in SLPDProcessMessage() leading to remote code execution or denial of service. Patches/up...

VMware vCenter Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2015-0007)

VMware vCenter Server JMX RMI remote code execution RCE / vpxd denial of service DoS vulnerability SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

VMSA-2015-0007 : VMware vCenter and ESXi updates address critical security issues

The remote VMware ESXi host is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to a double-free error in the SLPDProcessMessage function in OpenSLP. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, via a crafted package, to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition...

VMware vCenter Multiple Vulnerabilities (VMSA-2015-0007)

The VMware vCenter Server installed on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A flaw exists in the vpxd service due to improper sanitization of long heartbeat messages. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to cause a denial of service. CVE-2015-1047 - A...

VMware vCenter Server JMX RMI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of VMware vCenter Server. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists in the configuration of the JMX remote interface. This interface allows a remote attack...

VMware Releases Security Advisory

VMware has released security updates to address security vulnerabilities in vCenter and ESXi. Exploitation of one of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. Users and administrators are encouraged to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2015-0007 a...