CVE-2015-1044 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1044?

CVE-2015-1044 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Esxi, published on 29 Jan 2015.

Official description

vmware-authd (aka the Authorization process) in VMware Workstation 10.x before 10.0.5, VMware Player 6.x before 6.0.5, and VMware ESXi 5.0 through 5.5 allows attackers to cause a host OS denial of service via unspecified vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1044?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Vmware Esxi, Vmware Player, Vmware Workstation.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1044?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-1044 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-1044 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1044 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Esxi

• CVE-2026-41709 Broadcom VMWare ESX Insufficient Logging Exploited Low 2.7
• CVE-2019-5521 Information disclosure in VMware ESXi Critical 9.6
• CVE-2024-22252 Use-after-free vulnerability Critical 9.3
• CVE-2020-3955 Cross-site scripting in ESXi Critical 9.3
• CVE-2010-4573 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.3

All Vmware Esxi vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m9cp-8h53-758g.