CVE-2014-1209

Summary

CVECVE-2014-1209
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-04-11 19:55:00 UTC
Updated2014-04-14 16:51:00 UTC
DescriptionVMware vSphere Client 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 before Update 3, and 5.1 before Update 2 does not properly validate updates to Client files, which allows remote attackers to trigger the downloading and execution of an arbitrary program via unspecified vectors.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Vmware Vsphere Client 4.0 All All All
Application Vmware Vsphere Client 4.1 All All All
Application Vmware Vsphere Client 5.0 All All All
Application Vmware Vsphere Client 5.1 All All All
Application Vmware Vsphere Client 4.0 All All All
Application Vmware Vsphere Client 4.1 All All All
Application Vmware Vsphere Client 5.0 All All All
Application Vmware Vsphere Client 5.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VMSA-2014-0003 | United States CONFIRM www.vmware.com Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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