THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2011-1785
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2011-1785

Esx vulnerability

CVSS
7.8
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
VMware ESXi 4.0 and 4.1 and ESX 4.0 and 4.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (socket exhaustion) via unspecified network traffic.
Affected vendor
Vmware
Affected product
Esx
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2011-05-03

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2011-1785

  • Confirm whether Vmware Esx is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-1785.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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