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ghsa-j724-gwg9-qjvw

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-12-13 18:30

Modified

2022-12-15 18:30

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

The vCenter Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in plaintext. A malicious actor with access to a workstation that invoked a vCenter Server Appliance ISO operation (Install/Upgrade/Migrate/Restore) can access plaintext passwords used during that operation.

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CVE-2022-31697 (GCVE-0-2022-31697)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-12-13 00:00

Modified

2025-04-22 15:50

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

Information disclosure vulnerability

Summary

The vCenter Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in plaintext. A malicious actor with access to a workstation that invoked a vCenter Server Appliance ISO operation (Install/Upgrade/Migrate/Restore) can access plaintext passwords used during that operation.

References

URL

Tags

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0030.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation	Version: VMware (7.0 prior to 7.0 U3i, 6.7 prior to 6.7.0 U3s, 6.5 prior to 6.5 U3u), VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x, 3.x)

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