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CVE-2012-1516

9.9 criticalEPSS 3.2%

Critical (9.9) in vmware. EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VMX process in VMware ESXi 3.5 through 4.1 and ESX 3.5 through 4.1 does not properly handle RPC commands, which allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (memory overwrite and process crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host OS via vectors involving data pointers.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.9 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-119
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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