CVE-2013-5970: VMware Esx

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

hostd-vmdb in VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.0 and ESX 4.0 through 4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (hostd-vmdb service outage) by modifying management traffic.

Affected products

• VMware Esx: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only
• VMware ESXi: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 5.0 only

Published 2013-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.