CVE-2005-3618

Severity

76%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

165%

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the management interface for VMware ESX Server 2.0.x before 2.0.2 patch 1, 2.1.x before 2.1.3 patch 1, and 2.x before 2.5.3 patch 2 allows allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via URLs, as demonstrated using the setUsr operation to change a password. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged with CVE-2005-3619 to automatically perform the attacks.

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the management interface for VMware ESX Server 2.0.x before 2.0.2 patch 1, 2.1.x before 2.1.3 patch 1, and 2.x before 2.5.3 patch 2 allows allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via URLs, as demonstrated using the setUsr operation to change a password. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged with CVE-2005-3619 to automatically perform the attacks.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:25:00

Affected Software

VMWare ESX

References

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2118366

Vendor Advisory

21230

Third Party Advisory

1016612

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

http://www.corsaire.com/advisories/c051114-001.txt

Broken Link

20060731 Corsaire Security Advisory - VMware ESX Server Password Cross Site Request Forgery issue

20060801 VMSA-2006-0004 Cross site scripting vulnerability and other fixes

ADV-2006-3075

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