VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2019-5544
CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability98.13%
CISA KEVKnown exploited vulnerability
Published2019-12-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Known Exploited Vulnerability
VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS OpenSLP Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Vendor / product: VMware / VMware ESXi and Horizon DaaS
Description
OpenSLP as used in ESXi and the Horizon DaaS appliances has a heap overwrite issue. VMware has evaluated the severity of this issue to be in the Critical severity range with a maximum CVSSv3 base score of 9.8.
Weakness classification
- CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
Primary references
- security@vmware.com — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Third Party Advisory
- security@vmware.com — Release Notes
- security@vmware.com — Release Notes
- security@vmware.com — Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Vendor Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory