CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-3618

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A CSRF vulnerability in the management interface of VMware ESX Server allows a remote attacker to perform unauthorized actions as an administrator via crafted URLs, such as changing a password using the setUsr operation.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can take over the ESX server by changing the administrator password or performing other critical operations, leading to full compromise of the virtualization environment.

Recommendation

Apply the appropriate patches for vulnerable ESX Server versions (2.0.2 patch 1, 2.1.3 patch 1, 2.5.3 patch 2) immediately and consider implementing CSRF protection mechanisms such as anti-CSRF tokens.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the management interface for VMware ESX Server 2.0.x before 2.0.2 patch 1, 2.1.x before 2.1.3 patch 1, and 2.x before 2.5.3 patch 2 allows allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via URLs, as demonstrated using the setUsr operation to change a password. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged with CVE-2005-3619 to automatically perform the attacks.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS