CVE detail
CVE-2012-5703
The vSphere API in VMware ESXi 4.1 and ESX 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (host daemon crash) via an invalid value in a (1) RetrieveProp or (2) RetrievePropEx SOAP request.
Buzz score
Why this CVE is surfacing
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Buzz score components · mention 6.9 · diversity 5.0 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
Why it matters now
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Evidence
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Virtualization giant VMware released a security update last week to address a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in ESX and ESXi , along with and update for the ESX Service Console that includes a number of security updates for open source Python packages.
newswww.securityweek.comNov 19, 2012, 10:47 AM
Exploit code
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