CVE-2016-7460

critical

Published 2016-12-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

9.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.1

Description

The Single Sign-On feature in VMware vCenter Server 5.5 before U3e and 6.0 before U2a and vRealize Automation 6.x before 6.2.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

94%

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.0.0`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.0.1`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.0.1.1`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.0.1.2`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.1.0`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.1.1`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.2.0`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.2.1`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.2.2`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.2.3`
vmware	vrealize_automation	`6.2.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-611

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

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