CVE-2012-1517 describes a critical vulnerability in the VMX process of VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1. This flaw allows authenticated guest OS users to trigger a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host OS through malformed RPC commands. With a CVSS score of 9.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring authentication but offering full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
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