CVE-2017-4943 Privilege escalation in vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA)

What is CVE-2017-4943?

CVE-2017-4943 is a high-severity vulnerability in Vmware Vcenter Server, published on 20 Dec 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-4943?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Vcenter Server.

How do I fix CVE-2017-4943?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-4943 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-4943 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-4943 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Vmware Vcenter Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4262-ffcv-r365.