CVE-2013-1211

medium

Published 2013-05-29 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

Cisco NX-OS on the Nexus 1000V does not properly handle authentication for Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) to Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM) communication, which allows remote attackers to obtain VEM access via (1) spoofed STUN packets or (2) a crafted VMware ESXi instance, aka Bug ID CSCud14832.

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.

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References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.