CVE-2013-5971

medium
Published 2013-10-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

Session fixation vulnerability in the vSphere Web Client Server in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before Update 3 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions and gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0012.html

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
vmware vmwarevcenter_server{"endIncluding":"5.0"}
vmware vmwarevcenter_server4.0.0.10021
vmware vmwarevcenter_server4.0.0.12305
vmware vmwarevcenter_server4.1
vmware vmwarevcenter_server4.1.0.12319
vmware vmwarevcenter_server4.1.0.14766
vmware vmwarevcenter_server4.1.0.17435
vmware vmwarevcenter_server5.0

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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