CVE-2014-8371 (GCVE-0-2014-8371)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-08 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:18
VLAI
Summary
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.5 before Update 2, 5.1 before Update 3, and 5.0 before Update 3c does not properly validate certificates when connecting to a CIM Server on an ESXi host, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof CIM servers via a crafted certificate.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2291 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2014-12-05 00:00
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