CVE-2005-3618: VMware Esx

High severity, CVSS 7.6. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• VMware Esx: from 2.0.1, before 2.0.2 (fixed in 2.0.2); from 2.1.1, before 2.1.3 (fixed in 2.1.3); from 2.5.2, before 2.5.3 (fixed in 2.5.3)

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.