Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the management interface for VMware ESX Server 2.0.x before 2.0.2 patch 1, 2.1.x before 2.1.3 patch 1, and 2.x before 2.5.3 patch 2 allows allows remote attackers to perform unauthorized actions as the administrator via URLs, as demonstrated using the setUsr operation to change a password. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged with CVE-2005-3619 to automatically perform the attacks.

BUGTRAQ:20060731 Corsaire Security Advisory - VMware ESX Server Password Cross Site Request Forgery issue | URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441726/100/100/threaded | BUGTRAQ:20060801 VMSA-2006-0004 Cross site scripting vulnerability and other fixes | URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/441825/100/100/threaded | CONFIRM:http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2118366 | MISC:http://www.corsaire.com/advisories/c051114-001.txt | SECTRACK:1016612 | URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016612 | SECUNIA:21230 | URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/21230 | VUPEN:ADV-2006-3075 | URL:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3075