CVE-2016-7462 (GCVE-0-2016-7462)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-29 09:02 – Updated: 2024-08-06 01:57
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Summary
The Suite REST API in VMware vRealize Operations (aka vROps) 6.x before 6.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary content to files or rename files via a crafted DiskFileItem in a relay-request payload that is mishandled during deserialization.
Severity
8.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-11-15 00:00
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