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CVE-2011-1785

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1785 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting VMware ESXi and ESX versions 4.0 and 4.1, where unspecified network traffic can lead to socket exhaustion. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, potentially causing a complete denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esx:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:esxi:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0341 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

vmwarevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

kb.vmware.com / kb/1035108
lists.vmware.com / pipermail/security-announce/2011/000133.html
osvdb.org / 72118
securityreason.com / securityalert/8240
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/67195
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13242
securityfocus.com / archive/1/517739/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/47627
vmware.com / security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0007.html
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