CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-1661

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2013-09-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-09-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and ESX 4.0 and 4.1, does not properly implement the Network File Copy (NFC) protocol, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and application crash) by modifying the client-server data stream.

Affected configurations

• vmware esx 4.0 • vmware esx 4.1 • vmware esxi 4.0 • vmware esxi 4.1 • vmware esxi 5.0 • vmware esxi 5.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References