CVE-2016-7458

Description

VMware vSphere Client 5.5 before U3e and 6.0 before U2a allows remote vCenter Server and ESXi instances to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.8

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.449

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 5.5	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 5.5-u1	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 5.5-u2	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 5.5-u3a	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 5.5-u3b	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 6.0	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 6.0-2	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 6.0-2m	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 6.0-a	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 6.0-b	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 6.0-u1	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2016-7458 are affected in VMware VSphere CLI (x64) 6.0-u1b	Windows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234