vRealize Operations (vROps) updates address privilege escalation vulnerability

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.