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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.

Published: Dec 31, 2005 Modified: Jun 16, 2026

CVSS Metrics

Affected Products (3)

Vendor Product Version
vmware esx * ≥ 2.0.1 < 2.0.2
vmware esx * ≥ 2.1.1 < 2.1.3
vmware esx * ≥ 2.5.2 < 2.5.3

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-h6c2-g6q9-7g8w

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the management interface for VMware ESX Server...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 7.6 / 10
EPSS Score 3.01%

Top 14% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 31.3 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub