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CVE-2013-5970

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
21/10/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.10 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.10
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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