CVE-2006-2481: VMware Esx

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware ESX Server 2.0.x before 2.0.2 and 2.x before 2.5.2 patch 4 stores authentication credentials in base 64 encoded format in the vmware.mui.kid and vmware.mui.sid cookies, which allows attackers to gain privileges by obtaining the cookies using attacks such as cross-site scripting (CVE-2005-3619).

Affected products

• VMware Esx: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.1 only; version 2.1.1 only; version 2.1.2 only; version 2.5 only; …

Published 2006-07-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.