Security Advisory

CVE-2017-4921

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-08-01 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 14:47:42
Assigner vmware
State PUBLISHED

Description

VMware vCenter Server (6.5 prior to 6.5 U1) contains an insecure library loading issue that occurs due to the use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable in an unsafe manner. Successful exploitation of this issue may allow unprivileged host users to load a shared library that may lead to privilege escalation.