CVE-2017-4914 is a critical deserialization vulnerability affecting VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP) versions 6.1.x, 6.0.x, 5.8.x, and 5.5.x. This flaw allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the VDP appliance with high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, as indicated by its CVSSv3 score of 9.8. While not listed on CISA’s KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
5.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vsphere_data_protection:5.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vsphere_data_protection:5.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.5.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vsphere_data_protection:5.5.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.5.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vsphere_data_protection:5.5.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.5.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vmware:vsphere_data_protection:5.5.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.