CVE-2012-5978: VMware View

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the (1) View Connection Server and (2) View Security Server in VMware View 4.x before 4.6.2 and 5.x before 5.1.2 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

• VMware View: version 4.0.0 only; version 4.5 only; version 4.6.0 only; version 4.6.1 only; version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; …

Published 2012-12-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.