CVE-2018-6979
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2018-10-05
- Fixed in9.7.0.3 · 9.6.0.7 · 9.5.0.16 · 9.4.0.22 · 9.3.0.25 · 9.2.3.27
Am I affected?
Debian, Ubuntu or Red Hat sometimes backport a fix without changing the upstream version number: such a version reads « to verify », never « affected ».With a domain, we read the version its public headers and pages expose. A distribution build can carry the fix under an older number.
Description
The VMware Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management Console (A/W Console) 9.7.x prior to 9.7.0.3, 9.6.x prior to 9.6.0.7, 9.5.x prior to 9.5.0.16, 9.4.x prior to 9.4.0.22, 9.3.x prior to 9.3.0.25, 9.2.x prior to 9.2.3.27, and 9.1.x prior to 9.1.5.6 contains a SAML authentication bypass vulnerability which can be leveraged during device enrollment. This vulnerability may allow for a malicious actor to impersonate an authorized SAML session if certificate-based authentication is enabled. This vulnerability is also relevant if certificate-based authentication is not enabled, but the outcome of exploitation is limited to an information disclosure (Important Severity) in those cases.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2018-10-0512:29CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2018-6979?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2018-6979?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.7 | ≥ 9.7.0.0, < 9.7.0.3 | 9.7.0.3 | NVD |
| 9.6 | ≥ 9.6.0.0, < 9.6.0.7 | 9.6.0.7 | NVD |
| 9.5 | ≥ 9.5.0.0, < 9.5.0.16 | 9.5.0.16 | NVD |
| 9.4 | ≥ 9.4.0.0, < 9.4.0.22 | 9.4.0.22 | NVD |
| 9.3 | ≥ 9.3.0.0, < 9.3.0.25 | 9.3.0.25 | NVD |
| 9.2 | ≥ 9.2.0.0, < 9.2.3.27 | 9.2.3.27 | NVD |
| 9.1 | ≥ 9.1.0.0, < 9.1.5.6 | 9.1.5.6 | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- Update Vmware airwatch console to 9.7.0.3 · 9.6.0.7 · 9.5.0.16 · 9.4.0.22 · 9.3.0.25 · 9.2.3.27 · 9.1.5.6
Advisories and patches
- www.vmware.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.07.4read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.05.8read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.1 %2026-10-22
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Published
- 2018-10-05
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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