CVEvulnerability
CVE-2013-5970
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-10-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
hostd-vmdb in VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.0 and ESX 4.0 through 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hostd-vmdb service outage) by modifying management traffic.
Affected configurations
• vmware esx 4.0
• vmware esx 4.1
• vmware esxi 4.0
• vmware esxi 4.1
• vmware esxi 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/98719 osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63216 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029206 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0012.html Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88135 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://osvdb.org/98719 osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63216 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029206 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0012.html Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88135 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com