01 Record
CVE-2013-5970
hostd-vmdb in VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.0 and ESX 4.0 through 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hostd-vmdb service outage) by modifying management traffic.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
hostd-vmdb in VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.0 and ESX 4.0 through 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hostd-vmdb service outage) by modifying management traffic.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.54% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 74.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2013-10-21 10:00Z13 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 17:29Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-10-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 38f8955d1562fed6dd2a14e49ae27e44d12a204cca0cf9f88cf77822f4e40d5f
05 Affected products
06 References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comvmware-esxi-cve20135970-dos(88135)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88135
- www.securityfocus.com63216http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63216
- www.securitytracker.com1029206http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029206
- www.vmware.comhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2013-0012.html
- osvdb.org98719http://osvdb.org/98719