Security Advisory SA50798 - VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Directory Traversal Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA50798

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA50798

Release Date

2012-10-05

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Exposure of system information

Where

From local network

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia VIM

Software:

VMware vCenter CapacityIQ 1.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2012-5051 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

A vulnerability has been reported in VMware vCenter CapacityIQ, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive system information.

Certain unspecified input is not properly verified before being used to access files. This can be exploited to disclose the contents of arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.5.x.

Solution
Upgrade to VMware vCenter Operations (vCOps) version 5.0.x.

Provided and/or discovered by
The vendor credits Alexander Minozhenko, ERPScan.

Original Advisory
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html

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