CVE-2012-1516

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.032 · 88 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.20% (88th) EPSS

CVSS 9 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.9

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 9–9.9

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 10

v3.19.9criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.1 · impact 6

v3.19.1criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USprimary

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
vmware esx= 3.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esx= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi= 3.5nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi= 4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware esxi= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:vmware:esxi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-05-04modified 2026-06-16

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references (13)

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