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CVE-2013-1661

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
04/09/2013
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

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

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

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:4.0:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.0:2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.0:3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.0:4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.1:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.1:2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.0:1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.0:2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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