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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: vmware

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Updated: 2024-09-16T18:40:02.798Z

Reserved: 2016-12-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-4943

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-12-20T15:29:00.327

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-4943

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