CVE-2012-1512
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the internal browser in vSphere Client in VMware vSphere 4.1 before Update 2 and 5.0 before Update 1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted log-file entry.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | vsphere | {"endIncluding":"4.1"} | |
References
- http://osvdb.org/80119
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48387
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52525
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026817
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0005.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74093
- http://osvdb.org/80119
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48387
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52525
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026817
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0005.html
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/74093
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.