CVE-2009-0518 (GCVE-0-2009-0518)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-04-06 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
VI Client in VMware VirtualCenter before 2.5 Update 4, VMware ESXi 3.5 before Update 4, and VMware ESX 3.5 before Update 4 retains the VirtualCenter Server password in process memory, which might allow local users to obtain this password.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2009/Apr/0036.html | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34373 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
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| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0944 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announ… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-20… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/34585 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2009-04-03 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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