CVE-2020-3956

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-3956
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-05-20 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-12-13 19:07:00 UTC
DescriptionVMware Cloud Director 10.0.x before 10.0.0.2, 9.7.0.x before 9.7.0.5, 9.5.0.x before 9.5.0.6, and 9.1.0.x before 9.1.0.4 do not properly handle input leading to a code injection vulnerability. An authenticated actor may be able to send malicious traffic to VMware Cloud Director which may lead to arbitrary remote code execution. This vulnerability can be exploited through the HTML5- and Flex-based UIs, the API Explorer interface and API access.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-917

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel - All All All
Operating System Vmware Photon Os - All All All
Operating System Vmware Photon Os - All All All
Application Vmware Vcloud Director All All All All
Application Vmware Vcloud Director All All All All
Application Vmware Vcloud Director All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Full infrastructure takeover of VMware Cloud Director (CVE-2020-3956) - Citadelo MISC citadelo.com
VMSA-2020-0010 MISC www.vmware.com Vendor Advisory
vCloud Director 9.7.0.15498291 Remote Code Execution ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com
GitHub - aaronsvk/CVE-2020-3956: PoC exploit for VMware Cloud Director RCE (CVE-2020-3956) MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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