CVE-2013-5971

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.020 · 81 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.02% (81st) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

9 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-24

Session fixation vulnerability in the vSphere Web Client Server in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before Update 3 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions and gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

cvss

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

6.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
vmware vcenter server≤ 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vcenter server= 4.0.0.10021nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vcenter server= 4.0.0.12305nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vcenter server= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vcenter server= 4.1.0.12319nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vcenter server= 4.1.0.14766nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vcenter server= 4.1.0.17435nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
vmware vcenter server= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:vmware:vcenter_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2013-10-21modified 2026-06-16

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references (9)

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