VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2013-1661

CVSS score4.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.10%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-09-04
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.1, and ESX 4.0 and 4.1, does not properly implement the Network File Copy (NFC) protocol, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and application crash) by modifying the client-server data stream.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references