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TITLE:
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA50798

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RELEASE DATE:
2012-10-05

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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in VMware vCenter CapacityIQ, which
can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive
system information.

Certain unspecified input is not properly verified before being used
to access files. This can be exploited to disclose the contents of
arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.5.x.

SOLUTION:
Upgrade to VMware vCenter Operations (vCOps) version 5.0.x.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Alexander Minozhenko, ERPScan.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0014.html

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