Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2017-4943

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.

  • Published: Dec 20, 2017
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2017-4943
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.2
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-f 6.5-f.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-e 6.5-e.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-d 6.5-d.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-c 6.5-c.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-b 6.5-b.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-a 6.5-a.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update1 6.5-update1.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update1c 6.5-update1c.x
vmware / vcenter_server 6.5-update1b 6.5-update1b.x