CVE-2014-1209

CRITICAL 9.3CVE-2014-1209 · Published 11/04/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-1209 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability affecting vsphere client (vmware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 3.8%, higher than 89.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
vsphere client vmware	`= 4.0= 4.1= 5.0= 5.1`	No fix yet

Description

VMware vSphere Client 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 before Update 3, and 5.1 before Update 2 does not properly validate updates to Client files, which allows remote attackers to trigger the downloading and execution of an arbitrary program via unspecified vectors.

References

vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2014-0003.html · Vendor Advisory

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