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Tracker / CVE-2018-6978

CVE-2018-6978

Medium 6.7

vRealize Operations (7.x before 7.0.0.11287810, 6.7.x before 6.7.0.11286837 and 6.6.x before 6.6.1.11286876) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability due to improper permissions of support scripts. Admin user of the vROps application with shell access may exploit this issue to elevate the privileges to root on a vROps machine. Note: the admin user (non-sudoer) should not be confused with root of the vROps machine.

Affected products and versions

vmware vrealize_operations · 6.6.0 → 6.6.1.11286876
vmware vrealize_operations · 6.7.0 → 6.7.0.11286837
vmware vrealize_operations · 7.0.0 → 7.0.0.11287810

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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