CVE-2015-1047 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-1047?

CVE-2015-1047 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Vmware Vcenter Server, published on 12 Oct 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

vpxd in VMware vCenter Server 5.0 before u3e, 5.1 before u3, and 5.5 before u2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long heartbeat message.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1047?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Vcenter Server.

How do I fix CVE-2015-1047?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-1047 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-2015-1047 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1047 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-296x-83m2-v73h.