CVE-2017-4943
VMware vCenter Server Appliance (vCSA) (6.5 before 6.5 U1d) contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability via the ‘showlog’ plugin. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in a low privileged user gaining root level privileges over the appliance base OS.
Date published : 2017-12-20
https://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2017-0021.html