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CVE-2017-4952

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

VMware Xenon 1.x, prior to 1.5.4-CR7_1, 1.5.7_7, 1.5.4-CR6_2, 1.3.7-CR1_2, 1.1.0-CR0-3, 1.1.0-CR3_1,1.4.2-CR4_1, and 1.5.4_8, contains an authentication bypass vulnerability due to insufficient access controls for utility endpoints. Successful exploitation of this issue may result in information disclosure.

Affected products

• VMware Xenon: from 1.0.0 through 1.5.3; 1.1.0-cr0-3, 1.1.0-cr3_1, 1.3.7-cr1_2, 1.4.2-cr4_1, 1.5.4-cr2, 1.5.4-cr3 (+8)

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/153
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103093
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/055ae13603f0cc3cd7cf59f20ce314bf8db583e1
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/06b9947cf603ba40fd8b03bfeb2e84528a7ab592
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/30ae41bccf418d88b52b35a81efb3c1304b798f8
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/5682ef8d40569afd00fb9a5933e7706bb5b66713
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/756d893573414eec8635c2aba2345c4dcf10b21c
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/7a747d82b80cd38d2c11a0d9cdedb71c722a2c75
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/b1fd306047ecdac82661d636ebee801a7f2b3a0a
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/c23964eb57e846126daef98ef7ed15400313e977
• https://github.com/vmware/xenon/commit/ec30db9afada9cb52852082ce4d7d0095524f3b3
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q1/153

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