VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-5990

CVSS score4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.90%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-11-21
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

VMWare VirtualCenter client 2.x before 2.0.1 Patch 1 (Build 33643) and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 Patch 1 (Build 33425), when server certificate verification is enabled, does not verify the server's X.509 certificate when creating an SSL session, which allows remote malicious servers to spoof valid servers via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references