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CVE-2012-1516

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-05-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The VMX process in VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1 and ESX 3.5 through 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 data pointers.

Affected products

• VMware ESX: 3.5, 3.5-update1, 3.5-update2, 3.5-update3, 4.0, 4.1
• VMware ESXi: 3.5, 3.5-1, 4.0, 4.0-1, 4.0-2, 4.0-3 (+2)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027018
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75373
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16810
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53369
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027018
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2012-0009.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75373
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16810

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