VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-4943

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-12-20
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) (6.5 before 6.5 U1d) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability via the 'showlog' plugin. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged user gaining root level privileges over the appliance base OS.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references