Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU1431

Stored cross-site scripting in VMware ESXi - CVE-2016-7463

Published: December 20, 2016

Vulnerability identifier: #VU1431

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-7463

CWE-ID: CWE-79

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data passed via malicious VM (virtual machine) image. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted VM image, containing XSS exploit, trick the victim into importing the image and permanently store arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in victim’s browser in context of vulnerable website every time the victim visits vulnerable interface.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive data.

Affected software

VMware ESXi

How to mitigate CVE-2016-7463

The vendor has issued the following patches to address this vulnerability:

ESXi 6.0

ESXi600-201611102-SG

ESXi 5.5

ESXi550-201612102-S

External References

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