Security Advisory

CVE-2018-6978

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-12-18 20:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 06:17:17

Assigner vmware

State PUBLISHED

Description

vRealize Operations (7.x before 7.0.0.11287810, 6.7.x before 6.7.0.11286837 and 6.6.x before 6.6.1.11286876) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper permissions of support scripts. Admin user of the vROps application with shell access may exploit this issue to elevate the privileges to root on a vROps machine. Note: the admin user (non-sudoer) should not be confused with root of the vROps machine.

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