Vulnerability CVE-2013-1661


Published: 2013-09-03   Modified: 2013-09-04

Description:
VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and ESX 4.0 and 4.1, does not properly implement the Network File Copy (NFC) protocol, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and application crash) by modifying the client-server data stream.

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Vmware -> ESX 
Vmware -> ESXI 

 References:
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0011.html

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