Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2013-5970

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.

Published

2013-10-21T10:54:30.553

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 7.1 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: MEDIUM
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: COMPLETE
Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-20
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Operating System vmware esx 4.0 Yes
Operating System vmware esx 4.1 Yes
Operating System vmware esxi 4.0 Yes
Operating System vmware esxi 4.1 Yes
Operating System vmware esxi 5.0 Yes
References