CVE-2017-4943

Publication date

2017-12-20 15:00:00

Family

vmware

State

PUBLISHED

Description

VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) (6.5 before 6.5 U1d) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability via the showlog plugin. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged user gaining root level privileges over the appliance base OS.