CVE-2012-5703
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
The vSphere API in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (host daemon crash) via an invalid value in a (1) RetrieveProp or (2) RetrievePropEx SOAP request.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/vmware-esx-input-validation-error
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56571
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027782
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0016.html
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/vmware-esx-input-validation-error
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56571
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027782
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0016.html
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.