Security readout for executives and security teams
This is an old VMware hypervisor flaw where specially crafted NFS traffic could let a remote attacker crash the host or run code. The business concern is highest where legacy ESXi or ESX hosts still exist and NFS access reaches management or storage networks. Likely exposure is limited to legacy VMware ESXi 3.5-5.0 or ESX 3.5-4.1 systems with reachable NFS traffic paths. Modern environments are mainly at risk from forgotten hosts, lab systems, isolated clusters, or unsupported virtualization infrastructure. Treat as high priority if any affected VMware host still exists. A hypervisor-level remote code execution or crash risk can affect many dependent workloads, even though the issue is old and exploitation evidence is not supplied. Mitigation focus: Inventory VMware ESXi and ESX hosts for the named legacy versions.; Check VMware VMSA-2012-0009 for vendor-approved fixes or mitigations.; Restrict NFS access to required trusted storage networks only..
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- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- vmware-nfs-code-execution(75375)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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