CVE-2019-5528 VMware ESXi 6.5 suffers from partial denial of service vulnerability in hostd process.
Medium 5.3
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-5528 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2019-5528 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Esxi, published on 11 Jul 2019.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5528 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Vmware Esxi. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5528/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-5528/index.md)
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-5528?
CVE-2019-5528 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Vmware Esxi, published on 11 Jul 2019.
Official description
VMware ESXi 6.5 suffers from partial denial of service vulnerability in hostd process. Patch ESXi650-201907201-UG for this issue is available.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5528?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Vmware Esxi.
How do I fix CVE-2019-5528?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5528 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2019-5528 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5528 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Vmware Esxi
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2ccr-gfc9-vp3w.