CVE-2006-2481

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 7.1%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJul 31

1st PoCJul 31

exploitation probability

7.1%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

VMware ESX Server 2.0.x before 2.0.2 and 2.x before 2.5.2 patch 4 stores authentication credentials in base 64 encoded format in the vmware.mui.kid and vmware.mui.sid cookies, which allows attackers to gain privileges by obtaining the cookies using attacks such as cross-site scripting (CVE-2005-3619).

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/28312

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References

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2118366 http://secunia.com/advisories/21230 http://www.corsaire.com/advisories/c060512-001.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441728/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441825/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19249 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3075