CVE-2016-2078
medium
CVSS v3
6.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.1
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Web Client in VMware vCenter Server 5.1 before update 3d, 5.5 before update 3d, and 6.0 before update 2 on Windows allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the flashvars parameter.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
71%
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 | vcenter_server | 5.1 | |
| vmware | vcenter_server | 5.5 | |
| vmware | vcenter_server | 6.0 | |
| vmware | vcenter_server | 5.0 | |
References
- http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/VMWARE-VSPHERE-FLASH-XSS.txt
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137189/VMWare-vSphere-Web-Client-6.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538484/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035961
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0006.html
- http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/VMWARE-VSPHERE-FLASH-XSS.txt
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/137189/VMWare-vSphere-Web-Client-6.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538484/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035961
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0006.html
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.