Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-6325 - Information Exposure vulnerability in VMWare Vcenter Server Appliance 5.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) 5.0 before Update 2 does not properly parse XML documents, which allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 2 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Nessus
| NASL family | VMware ESX Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | VMWARE_VMSA-2012-0018.NASL |
| description | a. vCenter Server Appliance directory traversal The vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) contains a directory traversal vulnerability that allows an authenticated remote user to retrieve arbitrary files. Exploitation of this issue may expose sensitive information stored on the server. VMware would like to thank Alexander Minozhenko from ERPScan for reporting this issue to us. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2012-6324 to this issue. b. vCenter Server Appliance arbitrary file download The vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) contains an XML parsing vulnerability that allows an authenticated remote user to retrieve arbitrary files. Exploitation of this issue may expose sensitive information stored on the server. VMware would like to thank Alexander Minozhenko from ERPScan for reporting this issue to us. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2012-6325 to this issue. c. Update to ESX glibc package The ESX glibc package is updated to version glibc-2.5-81.el5_8.1 to resolve multiple security issues. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CVE-2009-5029, CVE-2009-5064, CVE-2010-0830, CVE-2011-1089, CVE-2011-4609, CVE-2012-0864 CVE-2012-3404, CVE-2012-3405, CVE-2012-3406 and CVE-2012-3480 to these issues. d. vCenter Server and vCSA webservice logging denial of service The vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) both contain a vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote users to create abnormally large log entries. Exploitation of this issue may allow an attacker to fill the system volume of the vCenter host or appliance VM and create a denial-of-service condition. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CVE-2012-6326 to this issue. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 63332 |
| published | 2012-12-24 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/63332 |
| title | VMSA-2012-0018 : VMware security updates for vCSA and ESXi |
| code | |
Seebug
| bulletinFamily | exploit |
| description | Bugtraq ID:57022 CVE ID:CVE-2012-6325 VMware vCenter Server可以快速部署虚拟机，并监控物理服务器和虚拟机的性能，可通过单个界面部署、监控和管理虚拟化IT 环境，并确保最佳的服务级别。 vCenter Server Appliance存在一个XML解析漏洞，通过XML文件传递的输入在用于下载文件之前缺少校验，允许通过验证的远程用户获得系统任意文件。 0 VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.x 厂商解决方案 VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.1和vCenter Server Appliance 5.0 Update 2已经修复此漏洞，建议用户下载使用： http://www.vmware.com/ |
| id | SSV:60530 |
| last seen | 2017-11-19 |
| modified | 2012-12-24 |
| published | 2012-12-24 |
| reporter | Root |
| title | vCenter Server Appliance任意文件下载漏洞 |