CVE-2016-7462: VMware vRealize Operations

High severity, CVSS 8.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Suite REST API in VMware vRealize Operations (aka vROps) 6.x before 6.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to write arbitrary content to files or rename files via a crafted DiskFileItem in a relay-request payload that is mishandled during deserialization.

Affected products

• VMware vRealize Operations: version 6.0.0 only; version 6.1.0 only; version 6.2.0a only; version 6.2.1 only; version 6.3.0 only

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