CVE-2016-7458: VMware Vsphere Client

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware vSphere Client 5.5 before U3e and 6.0 before U2a allows remote vCenter Server and ESXi instances to read arbitrary files via an XML document containing an external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

• VMware Vsphere Client: version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2016-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.