CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-4606

Improper Privilege Management

Published: Jan 23, 2020 | Modified: Feb 03, 2020
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Citrix XenServer 4.1, 6.0, 5.6 SP2, 5.6 Feature Pack 1, 5.6 Common Criteria, 5.6, 5.5, 5.0, and 5.0 Update 3 contains a Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability which could allow local users with access to a guest operating system to gain elevated privileges.

Weakness

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xenserver Citrix 4.1 (including) 4.1 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 5.0 (including) 5.0 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 5.0-update_3 (including) 5.0-update_3 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 5.5 (including) 5.5 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 5.6 (including) 5.6 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 5.6-common_criteria (including) 5.6-common_criteria (including)
Xenserver Citrix 5.6-fp1 (including) 5.6-fp1 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 5.6-sp2 (including) 5.6-sp2 (including)
Xenserver Citrix 6.0 (including) 6.0 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References