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Vigil@nce - VMware ESX, EXSi: privilege escalation via Add Existing Disk
January 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker who has the "Add Existing Disk" privilege can access
to all files of VMware ESX/EXSi.
Impacted products: ESX, ESXi, VMware vSphere Hypervisor
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 23/12/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The "Add Existing Disk" privilege allows to add disks. The
"Virtual Machine Power User" and "Resource Pool Administrator"
roles have this privileges.
However, with this privilege, a local attacker can gain a read and
write access to all files.
An attacker who has the "Add Existing Disk" privilege can
therefore access to all files of VMware ESX/EXSi.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/VMware-ESX-EXSi-privilege-escalation-via-Add-Existing-Disk-13984
