CVE-2012-5703 (GCVE-0-2012-5703)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-11-20 02:00
Modified
2024-08-06 21:14
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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