New VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2018-0031
This post was originally published on this site —— This is a critical security advisory from VMware (VMSA) — Today, VMware has released the following new security advisory: “VMSA-2018-0031 – vRealize Operations updates address a local privilege escalation vulnerability” This documents the remediation of an important severity local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2018-6978) in vRealize Operations (vROps). The issue exists due to improper permissions of support scripts. Admin** user of the vROps application with shell access may exploit this issue to elevate the privileges to root Read more […]