CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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9.7 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in VMware vRealize Operations (unknown version) and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Address Updater. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
VMware vRealize Operations (aka vROps) 6.x before 6.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges, or halt and remove virtual machines, via unspecified vectors.
The weakness was disclosed 10/11/2016 as confirmed mailinglist post (Full-Disclosure). The advisory is shared for download at seclists.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-7457 since 09/09/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 09/22/2022). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 10.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.7
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VulDB Temp Score: 9.5
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Exploiting
Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-264
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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OpenVAS ID: 861066
OpenVAS Name: VMSA-2016-0016: vRealize Operations (vROps) Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
09/09/2016 🔍10/11/2016 🔍
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10/12/2016 🔍
12/29/2016 🔍
09/22/2022 🔍
Sources
Vendor: vmware.comAdvisory: seclists.org
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2016-7457 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1036999
SecurityFocus: 93499 - VMware vRealize Operations CVE-2016-7457 Unspecified Remote Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20060413
Entry
Created: 10/12/2016 10:20Updated: 09/22/2022 19:31
Changes: 10/12/2016 10:20 (56), 05/07/2019 17:10 (11), 09/22/2022 19:31 (3)
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