CVE-2016-7457
critical
CVSS v3
10.0
CVSS v4 NEW
—
VIR risk
10.0
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
98%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| vmware | vrealize_operations | 6.0.0 | |
| vmware | vrealize_operations | 6.1.0 | |
| vmware | vrealize_operations | 6.2.0a | |
| vmware | vrealize_operations | 6.2.1 | |
| vmware | vrealize_operations | 6.3.0 | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93499
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036999
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0016.html
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbgn03707en_us
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93499
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036999
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2016-0016.html
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbgn03707en_us
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.