CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-20896

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-06-22 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-06-22
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

The VMware vCenter Server contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the implementation of the DCERPC protocol. A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger an out-of-bounds read by sending a specially crafted packet leading to denial-of-service of certain services (vmcad, vmdird, and vmafdd).

Affected configurations

• vmware vcenter server (>= 4.0 < 7.0) • vmware vcenter server 7.0 • vmware vcenter server 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References