ESXi < 7.0 Reflected Denial of Service

high Nessus Plugin ID 176249

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Synopsis

The remote VMware ESXi host is missing a security patch and is affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The remote VMware ESXi host is less than version 7.0 and is affected by a reflected denial of service vulnerability:

 - The Service Location Protocol (SLP, RFC 2608) allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to register arbitrary services. This could allow the attacker to use spoofed UDP traffic to conduct a denial-of-service attack with a significant amplification factor. (CVE-2023-29552)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to ESXi 7.0 U2c, ESXi 8.0 GA or newer or disable SLP.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?117c4e79

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/76372

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 176249

File Name: vmware_esxi_CVE-2023-29552.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: Misc.

Published: 5/23/2023

Updated: 5/24/2023

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29552

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:vmware:esxi

Required KB Items: Host/VMware/version, Host/VMware/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29552