CVE-2017-4914

Vsphere Data Protection vulnerability

CVSS

9.8

EPSS

8.8%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) 6.1.x, 6.0.x, 5.8.x, and 5.5.x contains a deserialization issue. Exploitation of this issue may allow a remote attacker to execute commands on the appliance.

Affected vendor

Vmware

Affected product

Vsphere Data Protection

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Published

2017-06-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-4914.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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