PT-2012-6084 · Vmware · Vmware Esxi

Published 2012-11-20 · Updated 2013-03-12 · CVE-2012-5703

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware ESXi version 4.1 VMware ESX version 4.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a host daemon crash. This can be achieved by sending an invalid value in a RetrieveProp or RetrievePropEx SOAP request to the vSphere API.

Recommendations For VMware ESXi version 4.1, update to a version that includes a fix for this issue. For VMware ESX version 4.1, update to a version that includes a fix for this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5703

Affected Products

Vmware Esxi

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5703 · Security Note
• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0016.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1027782 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5703 · Note
• http://coresecurity.com/content/vmware-esx-input-validation-error · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/56571 · Note