CVE-2006-5990

CVE-2006-5990 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:H/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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.

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