CVE-2012-1517

Published May 4, 2012

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving function pointers.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 9
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 8
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-119

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "0B6BA46F-4E8C-4B2A-AE92-81B9F1B4D56C"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "4BDE707D-A1F4-4829-843E-F6633BB84D6D"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

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