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CVE-2006-5990

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.0 Published: 2006-11-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

VMWare VirtualCenter client 2.x before 2.0.1 Patch 1 (Build 33643) and 1.4.x before 1.4.1 Patch 1 (Build 33425), when server certificate verification is enabled, does not verify the server's X.509 certificate when creating an SSL session, which allows remote malicious servers to spoof valid servers via a man-in-the-middle attack.

Affected Platforms

Vmware Virtualcenter

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References