CVE-2013-5973: VMware Esx

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware ESXi 4.0 through 5.5 and ESX 4.0 and 4.1 allow local users to read or modify arbitrary files by leveraging the Virtual Machine Power User or Resource Pool Administrator role for a vCenter Server Add Existing Disk action with a (1) -flat, (2) -rdm, or (3) -rdmp filename.

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; version 5.1 only

Published 2013-12-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.