CVE-2006-5990

Medium

Description

VMWare VirtualCenter client 2.x before 2.0.1 Patch 1 (Build 33643) and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 Patch 1 (Build 33425), when server certificate verification is enabled, does not verify the server's X.509 certificate when creating an SSL session, which allows remote malicious servers to spoof valid servers via a man-in-the-middle attack.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.0
Exploit probability—
ProductVmware Virtualcenter
PublishedNov 21, 2006
First seenNov 21, 2006

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
vmware virtualcenter1.4.1, 2.0.1—

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