CVE-2022-31697

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-312

Description

The vCenter Server contains an information disclosure vulnerability due to the logging of credentials in plaintext. A malicious actor with access to a workstation that invoked a vCenter Server Appliance ISO operation (Install/Upgrade/Migrate/Restore) can access plaintext passwords used during that operation.

Affected products

VMware Cloud Foundation: from 3.0
VMware vCenter Server: 6.5, 6.5-a, 6.5-b, 6.5-c, 6.5-d, 6.5-update1 (+63)
VMware vCenter Server, VMware Cloud Foundation: from VMware (7.0 prior through 7.0 U3i, 6.7 prior to 6.7.0 U3s, 6.5 prior to 6.5 U3u), VMware Cloud Foundation (4.x, 3.x)

References

https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0030.html
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2022-0030.html

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