VMware Openwsman on ESX and ESXi Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	29547
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2008-2097
Remote:	No
Local:	Yes
Published:	Jun 04 2008 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 09 2008 05:42PM
Credit:	Alexander Sotirov, VMware Security Research
Vulnerable:	VMWare ESXi Server 3.5 VMWare ESX Server 3.5 S.u.S.E. openSUSE 10.3 Openwsman Openwsman 1.5
Not Vulnerable:	Openwsman Openwsman 1.5.2

VMware Openwsman on ESX and ESXi Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

VMware Openwsman is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability because it fails to adequately verify user-supplied input.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain superuser privileges, completely compromising an affected computer.

This issue affects the Openwsman service on ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5.

VMware Openwsman on ESX and ESXi Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any working exploits. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

VMware Openwsman on ESX and ESXi Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released an advisory and fixes. Please see the references for more information.

VMware Openwsman on ESX and ESXi Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

References:

• Openwsman Changeset 2810: fixed possible buffer overflow by authenticated user (Openwsman)
  
• Openwsman Homepage (Openwsman)
  
• VMware Homepage (VMware)