Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in VMware vSphere Client 5.5 and 6.0

CVE-2016-7458 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

VMware vSphere Client 5.5 before U3e and 6.0 before U2a allows remote vCenter Server and ESXi instances to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

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