PT-2016-7344 · Vmware · Vmware Vrealize Operations

Published 2016-12-29 · Updated 2017-07-28 · CVE-2016-7462

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware vRealize Operations versions prior to 6.4.0

Description The issue 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. This occurs in the Suite REST API.

Recommendations For versions prior to 6.4.0, update to version 6.4.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-749

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-7462

Affected Products

Vmware Vrealize Operations

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7462 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-7462 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0020.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1037297 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/94351 · Note
• https://tenable.com/security/research/tra-2016-34 · Note