PT-2013-5893 · Vmware · Vmware Esxi

Published 2013-10-21 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2013-5970

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions VMware ESXi versions 4.0 through 5.0 VMware ESX versions 4.0 through 4.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a hostd-vmdb service outage, by modifying management traffic.

Recommendations For VMware ESXi versions 4.0 through 5.0, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. For VMware ESX versions 4.0 through 4.1, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to management traffic to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-5970

Affected Products

Vmware Esxi

References · 7

• http://vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0012.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-5970 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88135 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1029206 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-5970 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/63216 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/98719 · Note