VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-4917

critical
Published 2017-06-07 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 6.1.x, 6.0.x, 5.8.x, and 5.5.x locally stores vCenter Server credentials using reversible encryption. This issue may allow plaintext credentials to be obtained.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.5.5
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.5.6
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.5.7
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.5.8
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.5.9
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.5.10
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.5.11
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.8.0
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.8.1
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.8.2
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.8.3
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection5.8.4
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.0.0
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.0.1
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.0.2
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.0.3
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.0.4
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.1.0
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.1.1
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.1.2
vmware vmwarevsphere_data_protection6.1.3

References

CWEs

CWE-327

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

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