CVE-2013-1659 (GCVE-0-2013-1659)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-02-22 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
VMware vCenter Server 4.0 before Update 4b, 5.0 before Update 2, and 5.1 before 5.1.0b; VMware ESXi 3.5 through 5.1; and VMware ESX 3.5 through 4.1 do not properly implement the Network File Copy (NFC) protocol, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by modifying the client-server data stream.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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