3. Problem Description

a. vCenter Server, vCloud Director, Horizon View information disclosure issue



VMware products that use Flex BlazeDS may be affected by a flaw in the processing of XML External Entity (XXE) requests. A specially crafted XML request sent to the server could lead to unintended information be disclosed.



VMware would like to thank Matthias Kaiser of Code White GmbH and Ilyass El Hadi of KPMG-EGYDE for independently reporting this issue to us.



The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2015-3269 to this issue.

The product updates listed in the table below have also been determined to address a XML External Entity (XXE) Processing and Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability in Flex BlazeDS.

VMware would like to thank James Kettle of PortSwigger Web Security for reporting these issues to us.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the identifier CVE-2015-5255 to these issues.

Column 4 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.