CVE-2005-3618

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the management interface for VMware ESX Server 2.0.x before 2.0.2 patch 1, 2.1.x before 2.1.3 patch 1, and 2.x before 2.5.3 patch 2 allows allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via URLs, as demonstrated using the setUsr operation to change a password. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged with CVE-2005-3619 to automatically perform the attacks.

• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2118366Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21230Third Party Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016612Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.corsaire.com/advisories/c051114-001.txtBroken Link
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441726/100/100/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441825/100/100/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3075Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
• http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2118366Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/21230Third Party Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016612Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.corsaire.com/advisories/c051114-001.txtBroken Link
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441726/100/100/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441825/100/100/threaded
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3075Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory

Published

Dec 31, 2005

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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