VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-2079

medium
Published 2016-07-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.9

Description

VMware NSX Edge 6.1 before 6.1.7 and 6.2 before 6.2.3 and vCNS Edge 5.5 before 5.5.4.3, when the SSL-VPN feature is configured, allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
69%
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.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.1.0
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.1.1
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.1.2
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.1.4
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.1.5
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.1.6
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.2.0
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.2.1
vmware vmwarensx_edge6.2.2
vmware vmwarevcloud_networking_and_security_edge5.5.0
vmware vmwarevcloud_networking_and_security_edge5.5.2.1
vmware vmwarevcloud_networking_and_security_edge5.5.3
vmware vmwarevcloud_networking_and_security_edge5.5.3.1
vmware vmwarevcloud_networking_and_security_edge5.5.4
vmware vmwarevcloud_networking_and_security_edge5.5.4.1
vmware vmwarevcloud_networking_and_security_edge5.5.4.2

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.