CVE-2012-1517

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% 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 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.

Affected products

VMware ESX: 4.1
VMware ESXi: 4.1

References

http://osvdb.org/81692
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/75374
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17231
http://osvdb.org/81692
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/75374
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17231

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