CVE-2017-4943

HIGH

VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0021.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040026

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0003

EPSS Percentile 10.1%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-787

Status published

Products (2)

VMware/vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 6.5 before 6.5 U1d

vmware/vcenter_server 6.5 a (9 CPE variants)

Published Dec 20, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026