| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2012-1517 (CCN-75374) | ||||||||||||
| Assigned: | 2012-05-03 | ||||||||||||
| Published: | 2012-05-03 | ||||||||||||
| Updated: | 2017-12-13 | ||||||||||||
| Summary: | The VMX process in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving function pointers. | ||||||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 5.9 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 9.0 High (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) 6.7 Medium (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
3.4 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-119 | ||||||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Gain Privileges | ||||||||||||
| References: | Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2012-1517 Source: OSVDB Type: UNKNOWN 81692 Source: CCN Type: SA49019 VMware ESX Server / ESXi Multiple Vulnerabilities Source: CCN Type: SA50093 VMware Workstation / Player Multiple Vulnerabilities Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 81692 VMware Multiple Product Function Pointer RPC Command Handling Local Privilege Escalation Source: BID Type: UNKNOWN 53369 Source: CCN Type: BID-53369 VMware Multiple Products Multiple Memory Corruption Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities Source: SECTRACK Type: UNKNOWN 1027018 Source: CCN Type: VMSA-2012-0009 VMware Workstation, Player, ESXi and ESX patches address critical security issues Source: CCN Type: VMSA-2012-0009.2 VMware Workstation, Player, Fusion, ESXi and ESX patches address critical security issues Source: CONFIRM Type: Vendor Advisory http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN vmware-rpc-commands-priv-esc(75374) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN vmware-rpc-commands-priv-esc(75374) Source: OVAL Type: UNKNOWN oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17231 | ||||||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||||||
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