CVE-2006-3589: VMware Esx

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

vmware-config.pl in VMware for Linux, ESX Server 2.x, and Infrastructure 3 does not check the return code from a Perl chmod function call, which might cause an SSL key file to be created with an unsafe umask that allows local users to read or modify the SSL key.

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; …
• VMware Infrastructure: version 3 only
• VMware Player: any version
• VMware Server: version 1.0.1_build_29996 only
• VMware Workstation: version 5.5.3 only

Published 2006-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.