CVE-2016-7462

HIGH

Description

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94351

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037297

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0020.html

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2016-34

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-12-29

Updated: 2017-07-28

Type: CWE-264

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:C

Impact Score: 7.8

Exploitability Score: 8

Severity: HIGH

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H

Impact Score: 4.7

Exploitability Score: 3.1

Severity: HIGH